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Bernard M. Campbell and Walter L. Campbell
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Bernard Moore Campbell (c. 1810 – May 30, 1890) and Walter L. Campbell (b. c. 1807) operated an extensive slave-trading business in the antebellum U.S. South. B. M. Campbell, in company with Austin Woolfolk, Joseph S. Donovan, and Hope H. Slatter, has been described as one of the "tycoons of the slave trade" in the Upper South, "responsible for the forced departures of approximately 9,000 captives from Baltimore to New Orleans."[1] Bernard and Walter were brothers.[2][3]
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Walter L. Campbell | |
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Born | c. 1807 |
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Bernard M. Campbell | |
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![]() "Negroes Wanted" for the interstate slave trade (The Baltimore Sun, Nov. 14, 1843) | |
Born | 1810 Georgia, U.S. |
Died | May 30, 1890(1890-05-30) (aged 79–80) Virginia, U.S. |
Occupation | Slave trader |
Years active | 1834–1861 |
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