This is a list of American slave traders working in Georgia and Florida from 1776 until 1865.
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Note 1: The importation of slaves from overseas was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed locally afterwards, including through the port of Savannah, Georgia (until 1798). [1] Especially in the 1790s, slavers sailing out of Rhode Island would go directly to Africa and trade rum for captives and then sell them in either Cuba or Georgia, wherever the prices were better that season. [2]
Note 2: It was technically illegal to import slaves into Georgia from other states from 1788 until the law was repealed in 1856, [3] but there was no law prohibiting the sale of slaves just across the border in the lands of the Cherokee Nation in what became the northwest quadrant of the state after Indian Removal, or across the Savannah River in Hamburg, South Carolina, maybe across the Chattahoochee River from Columbus in Alabama, or perhaps in Tallahassee in the Florida Territory.
- W. E. Archer [4]
- J. B. Allgood, Macon [5]
- Austin, Georgia and Virginia [6]
- A. K. Ayer, Columbus, Ga. [7]
- Thomas Bagby, Macon, Ga. [8]
- William K. Bagby, Atlanta, Ga. [9]
- Robert Beasley, Macon, Ga. [10]
- Bebee, Atlanta, Ga. [11]
- Blount & Dawson, Savannah [12]
- Alexander Bryan, Savannah [13] [5]
- Joseph Bryan, Savannah [12]
- Busster, Georgia [14]
- Redmond Bunn, Macon, Ga. [15]
- Curtiss Carroll, Georgia [16]
- Clark & Grubb, Atlanta [17]
- Robert M. Clarke, Atlanta, Ga. [18] [19] [20]
- Amaziah Cobb, Georgia [21]
- Charles Collins, Macon [22]
- Joseph M. Cooper, Macon, Ga. [10] [15]
- W. S. Cothron, Floyd, Ga. [23]
- Crawford, Frazer & Co., Atlanta, Ga., principals Robert Crawford, Addison D. Frazer, and Thomas Lafayette Frazer [18]
- James Dean (or Deane), Macon [4]
- Milledge Durham and William Brightwell, Georgia [24]
- Fields & Gresham, Atlanta, Ga. [18]
- Theophilus Freeman, Georgia, Virginia, and New Orleans [25]
- L. Graves [4]
- George Griffin, Georgia [26]
- S. H. Griffin, Atlanta [27]
- Henry C. Halcomb, Atlanta, Ga. [9]
- George Harris, Georgia [28]
- Charles S. Harrison, Columbus, Ga. [29] [7]
- W. H. Henderson, Atlanta, Ga. [18]
- W. C. Hewitt, Macon, Ga. [30]
- Inman, Cole & Co., Atlanta, Ga. [18]
- George W. Jones, Virginia and Georgia [31]
- Jones & Robinson, Georgia [32]
- John Jossey, Macon [22]
- Jerrome, Danbury, Ga. [33]
- Zephaniah Kingsley, Florida
- Jesse Kirby and John Kirby, Virginia and Georgia [34]
- Charles A. L. Lamar [5]
- Lowe & Simmons, Columbus, Ga. [35]
- McRiley, Georgia [36]
- Meinhard brothers, Savannah [12]
- Miller and Waterman, Macon [37]
- John S. Montmollin, Savannah [13]
- Dick Mulhundro, Virginia and Georgia [38]
- Myers & Thomas, Columbus, Ga. [39]
- Thomas Napier, Macon, Ga. [10]
- Jack Nickols, Georgia and Alabama [40]
- George Nixon, Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama [41]
- G. H. Noel, Macon, Ga. [10]
- James G. Noel, Macon, Ga. [8]
- Joe Norris, Georgia (?) [42]
- Nowell, Macon [43]
- Nowland, Virginia and Georgia [44]
- A. J. Orr and D. W. Orr, Macon, Ga. [45]
- Edward A. Parker, Macon, Ga. [46]
- W. R. Phillips, Macon, Ga. [10]
- Rafe Phillips, Macon [4]
- George I. Pitts, Columbus, Ga. [29]
- Ponder brothers (Ephraim G. Ponder, James Ponder, John G. Ponder, William G. Ponder), Tallahassee, Fla. and Atlanta and Thomas County, Ga. [47]
- Annie Poore, Georgia [48]
- Zachariah A. Rice, Atlanta, Ga. [49]
- Robinson, South Carolina and Georgia [50]
- John Robinson, Georgia [32]
- E. H. Simmons, Virginia and Georgia [51]
- Shadrack F. Slatter [52]
- B. D. Smith, Atlanta, Ga. [18]
- Smith & Co., Macon [22]
- Charles F. Stubbs, Macon, Ga. [10] [53]
- Henry Teuker, Virginia and Georgia [54]
- John Thornton, South Carolina and Dalton, Ga. [55]
- N. C. Trowbridge, Augusta, Ga. & Hamburg, S.C. [56]
- Wadkins, Virginia and Georgia [57]
- Mat Warner, Virginia and Georgia [58]
- Robert Watts, Savannah [59]
- William Watkins, Atlanta, Ga. [49]
- Weatherby, Augusta, Ga. [60]
- Winston & Dixon, Georgia [61]
- William Wright, Savannah [5]
