Slave Sales • 1,876 Records • Uploaded July 7, 2021
This source was abstracted from land records that recorded information regarding slave sales including the names of the buyers, sellers, and names of the enslaved individuals. Also noted are the dollar amounts involved and notations if they were sold out of state to potential slave dealers, as well as "certificates of removal" denoting enslaved people entering Maryland from another state (not for the purpose of sale). Original records can be found on MDLANDREC using the liber and folio cited on the record.
The list below shows the data fields included in this source. If a field is marked as Indexed, it is searchable.