List of Kentucky slave traders

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This is a list of slave traders active in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

A. Blackwell, Lexington
Lewis Allen, "professional kidnapper," Maysville
David Anderson, Kentucky and Baltimore (?)
John W. Anderson, Mason County
Jordan Arterburn
Tarlton Arterburn
Atkinson & Richardson, Tennessee, Kentucky, and St. Louis, Mo.
J. H. Bagby
J. G. Barclay & Co.
Kinchen Battoe, Kentucky
William Beck, Glasgow, Ky.
Blackwell and Ballard
Blackwell, Murphy, and Ferguson, Kentucky and Forks of the Road, Natchez, Miss.
Washington Bolton, Lexington
Bolton, Dickens & Co.
Boyce, Kentucky
Boyce, near Frankfort, Ky.
Dr. Brady, Hopkinsville, Ky.
Robert B. "Old Bob" Brashear, Salem, Va. and Alexandria, Va. and New Orleans and Louisville, Ky.
P. N. Brent, Lexington
Booz Browner, Robards gang trading agent and kidnapper
J. C. Buckles
Jacob T. Cassell
Joshua Cates, Christian County, Ky.
John Clark, Louisville
John R. Cleary, Lexington
Asa Collins, Lexington
H. Collons, Lexington
A. B. Colwell, Lexington
Mr. Cooper, Kentucky
William P. Davis, Louisville
E. R. Dean
R. H. Elam
George Ernwine
George Ferguson, Lexington
Ford, Kentucky, Mississippi, and New Orleans
Hugh L. Foster
Matthew Garrison
J. C. Gentry, Louisville
Austin Gibbons
Gray & Stewart
C. C. Green & Co.
Pierce Griffin, Lexington
John Harris, Kentucky, possibly kidnapping in Richmond, Indiana
Harrison, Washington County, Ky.
Henry H. Haynes, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tenn.
J. M. Heady, Lexington
David Heran
J. M. Hewett
William Hill, Robards gang trading agent and kidnapper
W. A. Holland
Judge Houston, Hopkinsville, Ky.
Michael Hughes, Lexington
Hughes & Downing, Lexington
John Hunter, Louisville
Kelly
Thomas Kelly, Louisville
William H. Kelly
James Kelly, Kentucky
Hiram Lawrence, Lexington
Joshua Lee, Louisville
R. W. Lucas, Lexington
John Madinglay, Nelson County
George W. Maraman, Robards gang trading agent and kidnapper
Silas Marshall, Lexington
George S. Marshall
James G. Mathers, Lexington
John Mattingly, Louisville and Lexington and St. Louis, Mo.
Neal McCann, Lexington
McGowan, Lexington
James McMillin, Maysville
Thomas B. Megowan, Lexington
John T. Montjoy, Robards gang trading agent and kidnapper
Muir, Ormsby & Co.
Felix G. Murphy, Lexington
Bill Myers, Madison County
Elijah Noble, Frankfort
Joseph H. Northcutt
Northcutt, Marshall & Co.
Ellis Oldham, Madison County
Otterman, Louisville
George Payton, Robards gang trading agent and kidnapper
Peck, Washington County, Ky.
Benjamin Ward Powell, Natchez, Miss., Louisville, Ky. and New Orleans
Thomas A. Powell, Louisville and Montgomery, Ala. and St. Louis, and New Orleans
William A. Pullum, Lexington
Redford
Gabriel Reed
Reynolds, Louisville, Ky.
Alfred O. Robards, Robards gang trading agent and kidnapper
Lewis C. Robards, Lexington
David Ross, Louisville, Ky.
Franklin B. Rust, Covington
A. C. Scott
Austin H. Slaughter
William Stansberry, Kentucky and Mississippi
Everett Stillwell, Robards gang trading agent and kidnapper
Edward Stone, Bourbon County and Harrison County("Bluegrass area")
John Stickney, Louisville
John Stringer
William F. Talbott, Louisville and Lexington
Joseph Thompson, Harrison County
Robert H. Thompson, Lexington
J. Watson, Louisville
Richard Watson, Louisville, Ky. and New Orleans
Silas Wheeler, Clinton County
Robert K. White
W. F. White, Lexington
W. P. White & Co., Lexington
Emanuel Wolfe
Heaman Wood
Rodes Woods, Robards gang trading agent and kidnapper
Charles H. Woolford
Henry Young, professional kidnapper, Maysville
John S. Young, Louisville

Citations

^ Bancroft (2023), p. 132.
^ Clark (1934), p. 339.
Calderhead (1977), p. 202.
Schermerhorn (2016), p. 219.
^ Coon (2009), p. 835.
^ McDougle (1918), p. 20.
^ Bancroft (2023), p. 129.
^ Coleman (1940), p. 167.
^ Bancroft (2023), pp. 128–129.
Hedrick (1927), p. 92.
^ Bancroft (2023), p. 127.
Bancroft (2023), pp. 125–126.
"Forgery and Scoundrelism". The Louisville Daily Courier. October 12, 1857. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
"Is Bound to Remain Rock-Ribbed Democrat". The Anaconda Standard. August 22, 1905. p. 11. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
^ Clark (1934), p. 337.
Sydnor (1933), p. 156.
^ Coleman (1940), p. 166.
"Twenty Dollars Reward". The Mississippi Messenger. June 24, 1806. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
Lundy, Benjamin F., ed. (November 1830). "Genius of Universal Emancipation". Vol. 1, no. 8. Microfilmed by Open Court Publishing Co. pp. 127–128 – via Internet Archive.
^ "Slave Narratives Of Kentucky". genealogytrails.com. Retrieved 2024-07-13.
"Cash for Negroes". Alexandria Gazette. March 11, 1851. p. 3.
"Robert B. Brashear". Alexandria Gazette. March 17, 1849. p. 3.
"Superstitious Sports - N. O. Times Picayune". The Shelby Guide. June 10, 1869. p. 4.
^ Clark (1934), p. 336.
^ Coleman (1940), p. 211.
Perrin (1884), p. 68.
^ James (1886), p. 17.
"Charge of Inhumanity to a Negro". The Louisville Daily Courier. May 19, 1858. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
"Attempt to Sell Free Negroes". The Louisville Daily Courier. October 26, 1859. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
"Entry for John Clark and Lenll D Clark, 1860". United States Census, 1860. FamilySearch.
"July 22, 1854, Lexington Observer". The Lexington Herald. May 12, 1913. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
"Negroes for Sale". The Louisville Daily Courier. February 18, 1857. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
"NOTICE". The Argus of Western America. March 21, 1822. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
^ Pettus (1924), p. 9.
"Entry for Willim P Davis and Eliza P Davis, 1860". United States Census, 1860. FamilySearch.
Bancroft (2023), pp. 129–130.
"More of the Princess Disaster". The Louisville Daily Courier. March 10, 1859. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
^ Sydnor (1933), p. 155.
^ McDougle (1918), p. 22.
Bancroft (2023), p. 126.
^ Bancroft (2023), p. 130.
^ Lucas (2014), p. 89.
^ Coleman (1940), p. 150.
Lundy, Benjamin F., ed. (May 1832). "Kidnapping". Genius of Universal Emancipation. Vol. 2, no. 12. Microfilmed by Open Court Publishing Co. pp. 191–192. Whole No. 276, Vol. XII – via Internet Archive.
Bedford (1919), p. 110.
Mooney (1971), p. 45.
Colby (2024), pp. 62–63.
Coleman (1940), pp. 155–156.
Coleman (1940), pp. 151–154.
"Monticello". Natchez Democrat. December 24, 1850. p. 3.
^ Brown (1855), p. 114.
^ McDougle, Ivan E. (1918b). "Slavery in Kentucky: The Development of Slavery". The Journal of Negro History. 3 (3): 214–239 (230, traders). doi:10.2307/2713409. ISSN 0022-2992. JSTOR 2713409. S2CID 149804505.
"Negroes wanted". The Courier-Journal. July 4, 1844. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
^ Fitzpatrick (2008), p. 29.
^ O'Brien (2014), p. 826.
Bancroft (2023), p. 126–127.
^ Lucas (2014), p. 93.
Rothman, Joshua D. (October 6, 2021). "How the brutal trade in enslaved people has been whitewashed out of U.S. history". Pennsylvania Capital-Star. Retrieved 2024-07-03.
Clark (1934), p. 335.
^ Coleman (1940), p. 155.
Clark (1934), pp. 336–337.
Coleman (1940), pp. 166–167.
"Democratic Slave Markets (St. Louis, Mo.), T. W. Higginson, New York Tribune". The Liberator. August 1, 1856. p. 1.
Stowe (1853), p. 356.
^ Coleman (1940), p. 170.
Pettus (1924), pp. 8–9.
Coleman (1940), p. 139.
Smith, Harry. Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America. p. 106 – via Documenting the American South (docsouth.unc.edu).
Green, Elisha W. (1888). Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green, One of the Founders of the Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute. Maysville, Kentucky: Republican Printing Office. p. 3. hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t2w37tf1b – via HathiTrust.
"100 Likely Young Negroes". Mississippi Free Trader. October 20, 1847. p. 3.
"Runaway". The Semi-Weekly Mississippi Free Trader. September 22, 1849. p. 3.
"$100 Reward". Baton-Rouge Gazette. June 5, 1847. p. 2.
Bancroft (2023), p. 295.
"Negroes for Sale". Southern Statesman. October 27, 1860. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
"Negroes Wanted and Boarded". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 6, 1847. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
Wilson (2023), p. 22.
"Police Court". The Louisville Daily Courier. July 10, 1855. p. 8. Retrieved 2024-05-26.
"David Ross, 1861, 633 E Jefferson, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, Late Negro Trader". U.S., City Directories, 1822–1995. Ancestry.com.
McDaniel, W. Caleb. "Wiki - Frank Rust". Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America. rice.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
"John, committed to jail in Warren County". Vicksburg Daily Whig. August 16, 1853. p. 3.
McDougle (1918), pp. 21–22.
Phillips (1936), p. 196. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFPhillips1936 (help)
"Petition 20783512". Race and Slavery Petitions, Digital Library on American Slavery. dlas.uncg.edu.
"Tragical Affair". The Louisville Daily Courier. December 1, 1851. p. 3.
"Entry for Silas Wheeler and Rosea Wheeler, 1860". United States Census, 1860. FamilySearch.
Coleman (1940), p. 156.
Bancroft (2023), p. 128.
Coleman (1940), p. 127.

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