List of slave traders of the United States

• Abraham, Anderson D., Buckingham County, Virginia • Adams, John S., Gadsen's Wharf, Charleston, South Carolina • Adkin & Boikin, Virginia • Ailer, George, Virginia • Alexander, Thomas, Charleston, South Carolina • Algood, Mississippi • Alsop, Samuel, Fredericksburg, Virginia. • Anchor, North and South Carolina • Anderson, John W., Mason County, Kentucky and Natchez, Mississippi • Anderson, Pat, Tennessee and Louisiana • James Andrews, New Orleans • Andrews & Hatcher, New Orleans • Armfield, John • Arnolds, Francis, Carolinas • Arterburn, Jordan and Arterburn, Tarlton, Louisville, Kentucky. • Atkinson & Richardson, Tennessee, Kentucky, and St. Louis, Missouri. • Austin, Georgia and Virginia • Austin, George, Charleston, South Carolina • Austin, Lewis L. • Austin, Robert, Charleston, South Carolina == B ==

• Bagby, Thomas, Macon, Georgia. • J. Russell Baker, Charleston, South Carolina • Robert M. Balch, Memphis, Tennessee • Ballard, William • Balton or Bolton, Richard • Banks, Tom, Richmond and Texas • Barrum, Virginia and Mississippi • Bates, Virginia and Mobile, Alabama • Beard, George Richard • Beard, Joseph A. • Beard, Major, New Orleans, Louisiana • Beard and Calhoun • Bearly & Robert • Beasley, Richard Renard • Behn, George W. • Betts, William, Richmond • Betts & Cochran, Richmond • Betts & Gregory, Richmond • Beverly • Beverly, Carter, Virginia • William Biggs & Lyman Harding, Natchez, Mississippi • Bishop, Richard Chambers • Blackwell, Murphy & Ferguson, Forks of the Road, Natchez, Mississippi • Blakely, James G. • Blakely, Joseph G. • Blount & Dawson, Savannah, Georgia • Boazman, James W., New Orleans, Louisiana • Bowers, J. E., Charleston, South Carolina • Boyce, Kentucky and Natchez, Mississippi • Boyce, Robert • Boyd, William L. Jr., Nashville • Boyd, Whitworth, and Taylor, Nashville • Brown, Tom, Virginia and Mississippi • Bush, Edward, Tennessee • Bradley, Return, Kentucky and New Orleans • Brady, Dr., Hopkinsville, Kentucky • Bragg, C. C., Charles Town, Virginia Alexandria, Virginia; New Orleans, Louisiana and Louisville, Kentucky. • Brenan, Richard • Henry Brooks, Georgia • Will Brooks, Virginia and Tennessee • S. N. Brown & Co., Montgomery, Alabama • Brown & Taylor, Missouri and Vicksburg, Mississippi • Brown & Watson, Montgomery, Alabama • Browning, Moore & Co., Richmond, Virginia • Bruin, Joseph, Alexandria, Virginia • Bruthing, Alexandria, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana • Bryan, Alexander, Savannah, Georgia • Bryan, Joseph, Savannah, Georgia • Buchanan, Carroll & Co., New Orleans, Louisiana • Buddy, J., New Orleans, Louisiana • Buford, S. E., Jefferson City, Louisiana. • Burrows, Willie, Virginia? • Busster, Georgia == C ==

• Caldwell, Joseph, Virginia • Campbell, Bernard M., Campbell, Walter L., and relations, Baltimore, Maryland and New Orleans, Louisiana • Carrod, Mr., Mississippi and South Carolina • Carter, John and Carter, Jesse, Virginia • Cavel, Mr., New Orleans, Louisiana • Cavendish, William, New Orleans, Louisiana • Chabert, Leon, Louisiana • Clarant or Clavant, Richmond • Clark, John, Louisville, Kentucky. • Clark, William and Samuel, Virginia and New Orleans • Clarke, James, Bayou Sara, Louisiana • Clarke, Robert M., Atlanta, Georgia • Cobb, James G., Alexandria, Virginia. • Cocks, John, Point Coupee, Louisiana • Coffin, George M. Sr. (Coffin & Pringle), Commission Merchants, Adgers North Wharf, Charleston, South Carolina • Coffin & Pringle, George M. Coffin and James R. Pringle, Factors and Commission Merchants, Adgers North Wharf, Charleston, South Carolina • Coffman, Joseph • Lewis A. Collier, Richmond, Virginia and Natchez, Mississippi • Conel, Virginia • Cooper, Richard • Cotton & Wakefield • Couper, John, Virginia • Cox, William, Charleston, South Carolina and Aberdeen, Mississippi. • Criddle, John, Virginia and Tennessee • Creswell, Elihu, New Orleans, Louisiana • Crosby, William, Alabama • Crow, William, Charles Town, Virginia • Cuculla, Seraphin, New Orleans, Louisiana • Cunnigan, Mecklenburg, Virginia • Cureton, John M., South Carolina • Currie, David, Richmond == D–F ==

from slave states can be valuable primary sources on the trade; slave dealers listed in the 1855 directory of Memphis, Tennessee, included Bolton & Dickens, Forrest & Maples operating at 87 Adams, Neville & Cunningham, and Byrd Hill and Thomas Powell, listed in the 1859 Montgomery, Alabama city directory , Walter L. Campbell, R. H. Elam, Poindexter & Little, C. M. Rutherford, and J. M. Wilson and Tarleton and Jordan Arterburn • John P. Darg, New Orleans • Davis, Petersburg, Va. • Ansley Davis, Petersburg, Va. • Benjamin Davis, Petersburg, Va. and Hamburg, S.C. • Bob Davis, Richmond • George Davis, New Orleans • James Davis, North Carolina (?) • John B. Davis, Richmond • Mark Davis and Benjamin Davis, Richmond and New Orleans • R. H. Davis, Virginia • Solomon Davis, Richmond • W. C. Davis, Louisville, Ky. • Davis, Deupree & Co., Richmond • Samuel J. Dawson, Natchez, Washington, D.C. and Alabama • William C. Dawson, Savannah • Anderson Delap, Nelson Delap, and Norman Delap, Memphis • Denton and Thornton, Richmond • Charles de Gaalon • Dickson, New Orleans and Mississippi • Dickinson & Hill, Virginia • Dix, Virginia • P. J. Doubourg & Co., Louisiana • James Dowell, Virginia • Downing & Hughes, Kentucky • Droue, North Carolina • Dryer • James Dunahow • William Dunbar, Mississippi • Dupree • Frank Eallem, Tennessee • Eaton, New Orleans • Benjamin C. Eaton • Simeon G. Eddins and brothers, Fayetteville, Tenn. • Alexander N. Edmonds, Memphis • Jim Elerson, Missouri and Arkansas • Ellis, Louisiana • John Ellis, Fredericksburg, Va. • W. Ellis, South Carolina • English, North Carolina and Mississippi • Joseph Ennells, Pennsylvania • Erskine, Richmond (and Mississippi?) • Joseph Erwin, John Erwin, Abraham Wright, and Billings, and Joseph Thompson, possibly Samuel Spraggins, Tennessee and Louisiana • Ben Farley, New Orleans • William Ferrill, Virginia and Mobile, Ala. • James L. Ficklin, Charleston, Va. • Hugh Fisher, Louisiana • Samuel R. Fondren, Richmond • Ford, Kentucky, Mississippi, and New Orleans • Nathan Bedford Forrest, John N. Forrest, Aaron H. Forrest, William H. Forrest, Jesse A. Forrest, and Jeffrey E. Forrest, Memphis, and Grenada and Vicksburg, Miss. • John W. Forward • Isaac Franklin, New Orleans == G ==

• Thomas Norman Gadsden, Charleston • Mr. Gaines (or Gains or Goins) • Galbert, Texas • Samuel Galloway III, Maryland • Jose Gamden, Texas and Tennessee • James Gardner • Matthew Garrison, Louisville, Ky. • J. C. Gentry, Louisville, Ky. • John M. Gilchrist, Charleston • William Gillesbey, North Carolina and Mississippi • Alexander Gilliam, Richmond • C. E. Girardey & Co., New Orleans • Tyre Glen, North Carolina (?) • William Glover, Elizabeth City, North Carolina • Thomas Golden, Fairfax, Va. • Robert Golikely, Richmond • Goodbar, Tennessee and Montgomery, Ala. • Thomas Goude • Grady & Tate, Richmond, Va. • Hinton Graves, Georgia • William Green • William H. Griggs, Virginia • Spot Grigsbry, Virginia • Andrew Grimm • W. H. Gwin, St. Louis and Virginia == H ==

• Haden, Washington, D.C. • Haden, Leon Co., Texas • John Hagan and family, South Carolina and New Orleans • Hagar, Richmond • Henry C. Halcomb, Atlanta, Ga. • William W. Hall, Norfolk, Va. • Thomas Hanly, Halifax Co., Va. • Benjamin Hansford, Natchez • James B. Hargrove, E. P. Aistrop, & N. A. Mitchell, Lynchburg, Va. • G. C. Harness, Potomac River and Natchez • William L. Harper, Virginia and Jefferson County, Miss. • Harris, Virginia • Benjamin J. Harris, Richmond, Va. • John Harris, Kentucky and possibly kidnapping in Richmond, Indiana • Harrison, Washington County, Ky. • Hartzell and Douglass, Virginia, and Mobile, Ala. • Hatch, Baton Rouge (?), Louisiana • C. F. Hatcher, New Orleans • John Hawkins, Virginia & Robert Hawkins, Mississippi • Robert C. Hawkins, Natchez • William Hawkins • Henry H. Haynes, Nashville • James Hearn, South Carolina and Louisiana • W. H. Henderson, Atlanta, Ga. • Henson, South Carolina and Georgia • Hewlett & Bright, New Orleans • James Hibler, South Carolina and Alabama • Peter Hickman, near Jonesboro, Tenn. • Buck Hicks, Goochland Co., Va. and Alabama • Joseph Hicks • Byrd Hill, Memphis & William C. Hill, Memphis • Hill & Powell, Memphis • G. H. Hitchings, Nashville • Hockens, Missouri (?) • Holloway, Virginia and Jefferson Co., Miss. • Francis Holmes III, Charles Town, Berkely County, South Carolina (now Charleston, Scouth Carolina) • Edward Home, Alexandria, Va. • Joe Hudson, Virginia and Alabama • James Huie, South Carolina and New Orleans • James Huie & Robert Huie • Bob Huay, North Carolina • J. Hull • Thomas Hundley, Halifax Co. Va. and New Orleans • Hunnicut, Virginia • William Hunt • Billy Hunter, Virginia and South Carolina • John Hunter, Louisville • Peter Hunter, near Lynchburg, Va. • Foster Hurst, New Orleans == I–J ==

's Genius of Universal Emancipation depicted the rise of the coastwise slave trade between the Chesapeake Bay and the Mississippi watershed • C. S. Irvine, Greenville District, S.C. • Andrew Jackson, Bruinsburg, Natchez District, Spanish West Florida (later Mississippi Territory), and John Hutchings • John D. James, Thomas G. James, and David D. James, Nashville, Richmond, Va. and Natchez, Miss. • Sam Jenkins, Prince Edward Co., Virginia • William Jenkins, Nashville • Thomas J. Jennings & Co., Hamburg, S.C. • James Jervey, Charleston • Johnson & Apperson • Sherman Johnson, New Orleans • Theodore Johnston, New Orleans • Jones & Robinson, Georgia • Jones & Slater, Richmond, Va. == K–L ==

illustration showing Mr. Haley, the slave trader character from Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel :'' "The Slave Warehouse" • George T. Kausler, New Orleans • William H. Kelly, Louisville, Ky. • James Kelly, Kentucky • James Kemp • Benjamin Kendig, New Orleans • Bernard Kendig, New Orleans • Edward J. Kendrick • Simon Kern, Richmond • Jesse Kirby and John Kirby, Virginia and Georgia • Moses Kirkpatrick, New Orleans • Charles Lamarque, New Orleans • John Lane, Virginia and South Carolina • Major Lane, New Orleans • Larken Lynch, North Carolina and Virginia • Henry Laurens, Charleston, S.C. • Bert (or Bird) Leatherwood, Richmond and Mississippi • Laferriere Levesque • J. & L. T. Levin, Columbia, S.C. • A. Lilly, New Orleans Montgomery Little, • L. Linder, New Orleans • E. Loftin, New Orleans • R. W. Long & Mull • Lumpkin & Locket • Robert J. Lyles & George W. Hitching, Nashville and Sumner Co., Tenn. == M, Mc ==

noted that in many towns "the same man dealt in horses, mules and slaves." , and listed a number of notable slave traders (including Seth Woodroof, Robert Lumpkin, Silas Omohundro, Hector Davis, Solomon Davis, and R. H. Dickinson) as references to whom "losses had been paid" • Macklevane, South Carolina • Maddock, Tennessee • John D. Mallory, Virginia and eastern Mississippi • Josiah Maples, Memphis • John Martin • W. B. Martin, New Orleans • Mathews, New Orleans • James G. Mathews, Louisville, Ky. • Mayer, Jacobe, & Co., Atlanta • Michael McBride • Mr. McClinton, Richmond • David McDaniel, Virginia and Macon, Ga. • Alexander McDonald and Winchester, Va. • William McGee • John M. McGehee & Thomas McGehee • J. B. McLendon, Lynchburg, Va. • McKeller, Virginia or North Carolina? • James McMillin, Kentucky • Jesse Meek Jr., Washington, D.C. and Louisiana • Joseph Meek, Nashville • Meek, Logan, Haynes & Magee, Virginia and Mississippi • Mellon, Alexandria, Va. • R. H. Melton, Richmond and Louisiana • L. D. Merrimon, also Merrimon & Clinkscales, Greenwood, S.C. • William H. Merritt, New Orleans • D. Middleton, New Orleans • Ladson Mills, North Carolina and Mississippi • Miller and Sutler • James Miller, Virginia and east Tennessee • James S. Moffett, Troy, Tenn. • Henry Millier & Co., New Orleans • John S. Montmollin, Savannah • James Moore, Virginia and Alabama • Peter Moore, Virginia • William Moore, Carolinas • Moore & Dawson, Richmond • Arthur Mosely, Virginia and Mississippi • J. F. Moses, Lumpkin, Ga. • Jean Baptiste Moussier, Richmond and New Orleans • Dick Mulhundro, Virginia and Georgia • Mullinnac == N–O ==

, Walter L. Campbell, Joseph Bruin, and J. M. Wilson all used this site at Esplanade and Chartres (previously Moreau) in New Orleans at various times • Nelson & Cobb, South Carolina • Isaac Neville, Memphis • George Nickson, Virginia • George Nixon, Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama • G. H. Noel, Macon, Ga. • George N. Noel, Memphis • James G. Noel, Macon, Ga. • Joe Norris, Georgia (?) • Nowland, Virginia and Georgia • Charles Nox, Natchez • Nutwell • Ziba B. Oakes, Charleston • William Oldham, Natchez • Thomas Otey • Overly & Saunders, Petersburg, Va. • Thomas Overton, Maryland (?) and Louisiana (?) • Owens, Natchez • Abraham Owens, Halifax County, Va. == P ==

• Page, New Bern, N.C. and New Orleans • Tom Pankey • John Parks • Benjamin Parks • Edward A. Parker, Macon, Ga. • James Parker, Dinwiddie County, Va. • Paul Pascal • J. C. Peixotto, New Orleans • Archibald Perkins, Virginia • Henry F. Peterson, New Orleans • W. R. Phillips, Macon, Ga. • G. B. Philippe • John J. Poindexter, New Orleans • Thomas B. Poindexter, New Orleans and Mississippi • Ponder, Richmond, Va., Florida, and Alabama • Ephraim G. Ponder, Thomasville, Ga. • Annie Poore, Georgia • P. J. Porcher & Baya, Charleston (Philip Johnston Porcher & Hanero T. Baya) • Thomas A. Powell, Louisville, Ky. and St. Louis, and New Orleans, and Mississippi • John B. Prentis, Virginia • William Price, Cumberland County, Virginia, and Mississippi • Pryor • William A. Pullum, Lexington, Ky. == R ==

'' depicted a slave auction under a horse market sign, a whipping post set up in front of the U.S. Capitol, and an Indian treaty discarded in the mud and forgotten • Reuben Ragland, Petersburg, Va. • John Rainey, Richmond, Va. and Louisiana • John Rath, Smith Co., Tenn. • Bernard Raux, Virginia • Dr. Ray, Tennessee (?) and Mississippi • R. D. P. Read, Lynchburg, Va. • Redford and Kelly, Kentucky • Renshaw and Brady, Preston Co., Va. • Reynolds, Louisville, Ky. • Reynolds, Byrne, & Co., New Orleans • Jesse Rice, Virginia • Zachariah A. Rice, Atlanta, Ga. • Charles Richards, Henry Co., Tenn. • John S. Riggs, Charleston • Alfred O. Robards, Kentucky • Roberson, Maryland and South Carolina • Roberson and Garrett, Richmond, Va. and Mississippi • George Robertson and John Robertson, Virginia and New Orleans • John Robertson, Mississippi and either New Orleans or Mobile • Robinson, South Carolina and Georgia • John Robinson, Georgia • Noah Rollins • Richard Rolton • David Ross, Louisville, Ky. • John M. Ross & Co., Clinton, Louisiana • Rowan & Harris, Mississippi • George Rust Jr. • C. M. Rutherford, New Orleans • E. M. Rutherford • Thomas Ryan, Charleston == S ==

'', 1872) • A. J. Salinas, Charleston • Sanders & Foster • Thomas Sanders, Washington County, Virginia, and Mississippi • Jourdan M. Saunders, Warrenton, Va. • A. C. Scott, Louisville, Ky. • J. M. E. Sharp, Columbia, S.C. • J. M. F. Sharp, New Orleans • Lewis N. Shelton • Lee Shoot, Nashville • E. H. Simmons, Virginia and Georgia • R. W. Sinclair, Kentucky • Henry F. Slatter, Baltimore and New Orleans • Shadrack F. Slatter, New Orleans • Robert Slaughter, Natchez, Miss. • B. D. Smith, Atlanta, Ga. • Thomas Jefferson Smith • Smithers, Virginia • Christopher T. Smithson, Virginia and "the lower country" • Solomon, South Carolina • Samuel Spears • John Staples, Memphis • L. R. Starkes • Edward Stone and Howard Stone, Bourbon County, Ky. • Samuel Stone, Danville, Va. • George Stovall, New Orleans • Pleasant Stovall, Augusta, Ga. • G. F. Stubbs, Macon, Ga. • A. A. Suarez • Sutler ==T–V==

in New Orleans, a C. M. Rutherford partnership, and G. M. Noel in Memphis , "Slave sale, Charleston, S.C.," published in The Illustrated London News, Nov. 29, 1856: The flag tied to a post beside the steps reads "Auction This Day by Alonzo J. White". The other flag was rendered in red in a later oil painting of the same image. A red flag indicated to buyers that a slave sale was imminent. In 1856, Alonzo J. White, along with fellow slave traders Louis D. DeSaussure and Ziba B. Oakes, opposed a new South Carolina law requiring that slave sales take place indoors rather than on the streets. Their argument was that the law was "an impolitic admission that would give 'strength to the opponents of slavery' and 'create among some portions of the community a doubt as to the moral right of slavery itself.'" • John and Philip E. Tabb, Norfolk, Va. • Bacon Tait, Virginia • Talbot, New Orleans • William F. Talbott, Louisville, Ky. and New Orleans • Humphrey Taylor, Virginia and Huntsville, Ala. • J. T. Taylor, New Orleans • John Taylor, Tennessee and South Carolina • H. N. Templeman • Harris Tharp • Philip Thomas • Sidney Thomas, Virginia • Thompson, near Nashville, Tennessee • Joseph Thompson, Louisiana • Thomson, Little Rock, Arkansas • John Thornton, South Carolina and Dalton, Ga. • Todd • John Toler • Clement Townsend • N. C. Trowbridge, Augusta, Ga. & Hamburg, S.C. • Tom Tucker, Knoxville, Tenn. • Thomas Tunno and John Price, Charleston • Mr. Turner, Natchez • Mr. Turner, Virginia • Allen Vance • Vanhook, Tennessee • Norbert Vignié, New Orleans == W–Y ==

• Wadkins, Virginia and Georgia • Charles Waley, Potomac River and Natchez • Walker, Virginia and North Carolina • Walker, Virginia and Tuscumbia, Ala. • Ben Walker • A. Wallace, Memphis • J. D. Ware, Memphis • William Watkins, Atlanta, Ga. • William T. Watkins • J. Watson, Louisville, Ky. • Addison Weathers • Webb, Merrill & Co., Nashville • A. Weisemann, New Orleans • Mr. Wetherby, Mississippi • James Whidby • Alonzo J. White, Charleston • James White, New Orleans • John White • John R. White, St. Louis and New Orleans • Maunsel White & Co., New Orleans • Frank Whiterspoon, Missouri and Tennessee • Joseph A. Whitaker, Rosehill, N.C. • James P. Wilkinson • Capt. Williamson, Virginia and Selma, Ala. • Thomas Taylor Williamson, South Carolina and Louisiana • James B. Williamson • Jerry Wilson, Tennessee • William Winbush, Virginia • Winston & Dixon, Georgia • David Wise, New Orleans • William Witherspoon, Memphis • Joseph B. Woolfolk, Eastern Shore, Maryland, and Natchez • Samuel Martin Woolfolk, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Natchez • Woolfolks, Sanders & Overley • Absolom Yancey • Mr. Yeatman, Virginia • Charles Young, New Orleans • J. Winbush Young, Virginia ==See also==