List of District of Columbia slave traders

This is a list of slave traders working in the District of Columbia from 1776 until 1865, including traders operating in Alexandria, Virginia before the establishment of the District in 1800 and after the retrocession in 1847:

• James H. Birch, District of Columbia and Alexandria, Va.^[1]
• Jack Brinkley^[2]
• Samuel J. Dawson, Natchez, Miss.^[3] Washington, D.C. and Alabama^[4]
• Jesse Dollerhide^[5]
• Jilson Dove, Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland^[6][7]
• Dyer family, District of Columbia^[8]
• Robert W. Fenwick, Washington, D.C.^[9]
• Franklin & Armfield, Alexandria^[10]
• John Gadsby^[11]
• Haden, Washington, D.C.^[12]
• John S. Hutcherson, Georgetown, D.C.^[13]
• George Kephart, Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia^[14]
• E. P. Legg, District of Columbia^[15]
• Thomas Magruder, Washington, D.C.^[16]
• George Miller, F Street^[17]
• Joseph W. Neal, District of Columbia^[18][8]
• Mellon, Alexandria^[19]
• Thomas Milburn, Washington, D.C.^[20]
• William H. Richards, Washington, D.C.^[21][10]
• Tench Ringold, Washington, D.C.^[22]
• John Edward Robey, Washington, D.C.^[23][20][24]
• Washington Robey, Washington, D.C.^[25][26]
• Joseph Semmes, Georgetown, D.C.^[27]
• Simpson, Washington during the Jackson administration^[28]
• Thomas Williams, Washington, D.C.,^[8][29][30] Virginia,^[31] and Vidalia, Miss.^[32][33]
• Williams H. Williams^[33]
• Williams, Washington, D.C.^[34]
• Ann Young & Peter Hevener ^[35]

"On the 4th day of December, 1815, (the day on which the session of congress commenced,) being at the seat of government of the United States, I was preparing to enjoy the first opportunity that had occurred to me, of beholding the assembled representatives of the American republic. As I was about to proceed to the building where the session was opened, my agreeable reverie was suddenly interrupted by the voice of a stammering boy, who, as he was coming into the house, from the street, exclaimed, 'There goes the Ge-Ge-orgy-men* with a drove o' niggers chain'd together two and two.' What's that, said I,—I must see,—and, going to the door, I just had a distant glimpse of a light covered waggon, followed by a procession of men, women and children, resembling that of a funeral. I followed them hastily; and as I approached so near as to discover that they were bound together in pairs, some with ropes, and some with iron chains (which I had hitherto seen used only for restraining beasts)." [Torrey's note: *On first hearing this epithet used, I was at a loss to account for its meaning. I have since observed that, in the middle states, the general title applied to slave-traders, indiscriminately, is Georgia-men.] ("View of the Capitol of the United States after the Conflagration of 1814" from Jesse Torrey's A portraiture of domestic slavery in the United States, published 1817)

Robey's 7th and 9th Street taverns and slave jails were pictured on this 1836 map produced by the American Anti-Slavery Society; the 7th Street property is listed as Neal's Jail

See also

• History of slavery in the District of Columbia
• List of slave traders of the United States
• List of Maryland and Delaware slave traders