List of North Carolina slave traders

This is a list of slave traders operating in the U.S. state of North Carolina from settlement until 1865.

• Dr. James Alston ^[1]
• Baget & King ^[2]
• Briggs, Cleveland County and Alabama ^[3]
• Carson, North Carolina (?) ^[4]
• Charles Carson & Smith, Burke County and New Orleans ^[5]
• James Davis, North Carolina (?) ^[6]
• English, North Carolina and Mississippi ^[7]
• Elias Ferguson ^{[8] [9]}
• Obadiah Fields ^[10]
• H. Forsyth, Statesville ^[11]
• Lewis Garland ^[12]
• Garret ^[13]
• James Gladiss ^[14]
• Tyre Glen, North Carolina (?) ^[15]
• Alla Bam Bill Haden, North Carolina, Alabama, and Texas ^{[16] [17]}
• Bob Henry ^[16]
• Heway, North Carolina and Alabama ^[18]
• Alex. Hopkin, North Carolina and Georgia ^[19]
• Howard, Chapel Hill, and Virginia ^[20]
• James Huie and Josiah Huie, Rowan County ^{[21] [22]}
• Bob Huay, North Carolina ^[23]
• Tillman (or Tilmon, Tilman, Tilghman) Hunt, North Carolina ^[24]
• Samuel Hunter, Maryland and Guilford County ^[25]
• Barnabas Ivy, Duplin County ^{[26] [27]}
• Larken Lynch, North Carolina and Virginia ^[28]
• Henry Long, Person County ^[29]
• J. A. McArthur, Clinton ^[30]
• Spruce McCurry, Jerry Addison, and Add March, Davidson County and Memphis ^[31]
• John McKane, North Carolina and Alabama ^[32]
• D. McKay ^[33]
• McKeller, Virginia or North Carolina? ^[34]
• Ladson Mills, North Carolina and Mississippi ^[16]
• Mr. Nash, Caswell County or Rockingham County ^[35]
• Nelson, Hertford County ^[36]
• Alexander Nelson, Guilford County ^[37]
• Page, New Bern and New Orleans ^[38]
• Everett Peterson, Clinton ^[39]
• Joe Poindexter ^[40]
• Capt. Poll, Maryland and North Carolina ^[41]
• A. S. C. Powell, Clinton ^[39]
• Luke Powell, Clinton ^[42]
• Alexander Putney, North Carolina and Mississippi ^{[43] [44]}
• Col. Allen Rogers, Wake County ^[45]
• John R. Sedgwick ^[46]
• William Simpson ^[47]
• David J. Southerland, Wilmington ^[30]
• Charles T. Stevens, Clinton ^[39]
• Mr. Stokes, North Carolina and Mississippi ^[48]
• Tisdale, Nash County ^[4]
• William Tisdale, North Carolina ^[49]
• Tomkins ^[50]
• Walker, Virginia and North Carolina ^[51]
• Whitfield, North Carolina ^[50]
• Thomas Woods, North Carolina and Mississippi ^[52]
• Charles Yancey and Jackson Yancey, Virginia and North Carolina ^[53]

See also

• List of slave traders of the United States
• Family separation in American slavery
• List of largest slave sales in the United States
• Movement to reopen the transatlantic slave trade
• Kidnapping into slavery in the United States
• Bibliography of the slave trade in the United States
• Slave markets and slave jails in the United States

References

1. "South Carolina—Barnwell District". The Charleston Mercury. January 14, 1846. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
2. "Committed to Jail". Tuskegee Republican. May 22, 1856. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
3. "Rachel Washburne searching for her sons Samuel and Lewis and daughter Rhoda · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
4. Jones-Rogers (2019), p. 118.
5. "To the editors of the American, KIDNAPPING". The Maryland Gazette. July 9, 1818. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
6. "Noah Foltz (formerly Noah Connor) seeking his mother Peggy Connor and siblings · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
7. "Taken Up". The Charlotte Journal. July 31, 1835. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
8. Colby (2024), p. 54.
9. "Elias Ferguson Papers, 1841-1883 - North Carolina Digital Collections". digital.ncdcr.gov. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
10. Fields, Obadiah. Obadiah Fields papers. Rockingham County (N.C.).
11. "Negroes Wanted - H. Forsyth, Statesville, North Carolina". Western Carolinian. December 27, 1834. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
12. "Committed". The Democrat. July 7, 1847. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
13. "Supposed murder". The Raleigh Register. March 22, 1851. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-01-15.
14. "BROKE JAIL". The Weekly Telegraph. August 14, 1830. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
15. Jones-Rogers (2019), p. 168.
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17. "Dianna Johnson searching for her mother Hannah Hellard and siblings · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
18. "Diana Johnson searching for her parents Jack and Hannah Hellard and several members of her family · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
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24. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4BH-NHP Entry for Hunt and Mary Hunt, 1850.
25. "Ten Dollars Reward by John Lide for Jacob". The Raleigh Minerva. May 12, 1806. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-09-22.
26. Sellers (2015), p. 159.
27. "Committed". The Democrat. Huntsville, Alabama. February 24, 1836. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
28. "William Tunstel seeking his brother McLeroy · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
29. "Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. p. 328. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
30. "slavery". Wilmington Journal. December 24, 1858. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
31. "Alfred Yancey (formerly Alfred Venable) searching for his seven brothers and one sister · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
32. "Committed to jail of Mobile county". The Independent Monitor. November 17, 1841. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
33. "Heavy Robbery" Newspapers.com, The Leisure Hour, January 27, 1859, https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-leisure-hour-heavy-robbery/143865533/
34. "Stop the Runaway!". Fayetteville Weekly Observer. April 23, 1850. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
35. "Highway Robbery". The Charleston Daily Courier. August 25, 1830. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
36. "Jane Horton searching for mother Louisa Banks and brother Benjamin · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
37. "Petition #21285530 Race and Slavery Petitions, Digital Library on American Slavery". dlas.uncg.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
38. "Sarah Oxley looking for her sister Dorcas Richardson · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
39. "Notice—Negroes Wanted". Fayetteville Semi-Weekly Observer. December 15, 1859. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
40. "Charles Westley Blaylock searching for his brother James and sister Caroline · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
41. "Taken Up". The Raleigh Minerva. August 30, 1811. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-01-15.
42. "Superior Male Cook, at Private Sale". The Charleston Mercury. November 9, 1864. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
43. "Committed to the Jail of Amite County, Mississippi". Southern Planter. January 26, 1832. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
44. Sydnor (1933), p. 155.
45. Sherwin, Oscar (1945). "Trading in Negroes". Negro History Bulletin. 8 (7): 160–166. ISSN   0028-2529. JSTOR   44214396.
46. Colby (2024), p. 98.
47. "Condemnation". The Charleston Daily Courier. June 6, 1826. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
48. "Runaway Negro in Jail". The Arkansas Gazette. July 21, 1830. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
49. "Race and Slavery Petitions, Digital Library on American Slavery". dlas.uncg.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
50. "Alarming Occurrence". Fayetteville Weekly Observer. May 20, 1824. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
51. "Mary Haynes searching for her relatives, including her mother Matilda and sister Bettie · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
52. "Betty Allen searching for her father Bob Bannett and aunt Dinah · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
53. "To the Public". Weekly Raleigh Register. May 7, 1824. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-06-23.

Sources

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• Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. (2019). They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN   978-0-300-21866-4.
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