List of Tennessee slave traders
Slave traders active in Tennessee from settlement until 1865
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This is a list of slave traders active in Tennessee from settlement until 1865.
- John Anderson, Nashville[1]
- Pat Anderson, Tennessee and Louisiana[2]
- Atkinson & Richardson, Tennessee, Kentucky, and St. Louis[3]
- Daniel Berry, Tennessee and Texas[4]
- Blackwell & Martin[5]
- Isaac L. Bolton, Memphis[6]
- Wade H. Bolton, Memphis[5]
- Washington H. Bolton, Memphis[6]
- William L. Boyd Jr., Nashville[7]
- Boyd, Whitworth, and Taylor, Nashville[8]
- W. Bradford, Memphis[9]
- Will Brooks, Virginia and Tennessee[10]
- John Brown, Tennessee[11]
- Edward Bush, Tennessee[12]
- Stephen Cantrell, Nashville[13]
- M. C. Cayce & Co.[6] or M. C. Cayce & Son, Memphis[14]
- John W. Chrisp, Memphis[15][16]
- Benjamin W. S. Cabell, Knoxville[17]
- Jason Chiborne & Co., Sweetwater Depot[18]
- James Cook, Paris, Tennessee, and Mississippi[19]
- William Cowan, Bedford County[20]
- John Criddle, Virginia and Tennessee[21]
- Clark Cummings, Clarksville, Tenn.[22]
- A. J. Cunningham, Memphis[23]
- Z. H. Curlin, Memphis[24]
- Joseph W. "Joe" Dabbs, Nashville[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]
- Dabbs & Porter, Nashville[33][34][35][36]
- Samuel H. Davis, Nashville[37]
- Anderson Delap, Memphis[23][38]
- Nelson Delap, Memphis[38][39]
- Norman Delap, Memphis[38][39]
- Delap, Witherspoon & Fly, Memphis[38][9]
- John A. Denie, Memphis[23]
- Thomas Dickins, Memphis and St. Louis
- Richard Dillingham, alleged slave kidnapper (abolitionist?) in vicinity of Nashville[40]
- W. E. Eliot, Memphis[6]
- Joseph Erwin, John Erwin, Abraham Wright, and Billings,[41][42] and Joseph Thompson, possibly Samuel Spraggins, Tennessee and Louisiana[43]
- Andrew Ewing, Nashville[34]
- Alfred Flournoy, Tennessee and Louisiana[44][5]
- Aaron H. Forrest, Memphis, and Vicksburg, Miss.[45]
- Jeffrey E. Forrest, Memphis, and Vicksburg, Miss.[45]
- Jesse A. Forrest, Memphis[45]
- John N. Forrest, Memphis[45]
- Nathan Bedford Forrest[45][46]
- William H. Forrest, Memphis, and Vicksburg, Miss.[45]
- S. and A. Fowlkes, Memphis[6]
- Glover & Boyd, Nashville[33][47]
- Goodbar, Tennessee and Montgomery, Ala.[48]
- Henry Hall, Shelby Co., Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi[49]
- Jonathan Harding, Sumner Co., Tennessee, and Natchez[50]
- E. S. Hawkins, Nashville[51][52][53]
- Henry H. Haynes, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tenn.[54][51][55][56][52][26]
- Peter Hickman, near Jonesboro, Tenn.[57]
- Byrd Hill, Memphis and Mississippi[23]
- Hill & Little, Memphis[58]
- Hill & Powell, Memphis[59]
- Hill, Weaver & Co., Memphis[60]
- George W. Hitchings, Nashville and Sumner County[55][51][61]
- J. M. Horton, Cleveland, Tenn.[62]
- Andrew Jackson[63][64] and John Hutchings, Nashville and Natchez
- Damascus G. James, Memphis[39]
- David D. James, Nashville, Richmond, Va. and Natchez, Miss.
- John D. James, Nashville, Richmond, Va. and Natchez, Miss.
- Thomas G. James, Nashville, Richmond, Va. and Natchez, Miss.
- William G. James, Memphis[39]
- James & Harrison, Nashville[33]
- William Jenkins, Nashville[65]
- Richard Johnson & Jesse Meek, Tennessee and Forks of the Road[66]
- Alpha Kingsley, Nashville[13]
- Latham & Farrell, Mouse Creek Depot (Niota)[62]
- Latham & Howard, Mouse Creek Depot (Niota)[62]
- T. D. Leonard, Clarksville[67]
- Benjamin Little,[68][23] [69][70] Montgomery Little,[71][72] Chauncey Little & William Little,[58] Memphis and Shelbyville, Tenn.[23][61]
- R. W. Lucas, Nashville[55]
- Robert J. Lyles, Nashville[55]
- Maddock, Tennessee[73]
- Maddux and Dawson, Nashville[74]
- Josiah Maples, Memphis
- William C. Mayfield, Pulaski[75]
- Joseph Meek, Tennessee, Virginia and Mississippi[76][77]
- A. A. McLean, Nashville[78][79][80]
- James Miller, Richmond, Va. and East Tennessee[81]
- James McMillin, Tennessee and Kentucky[82]
- N. A. McNairy, Nashville and Natchez[83]
- James S. Moffett, Troy, Tenn.[59]
- J. W. Morton, Nashville[84]
- Neil & Wright, Sweetwater Depot[18]
- Isaac Neville, Memphis[23]
- George N. Noel, Memphis[23]
- Petway, middle Tennessee and lower Mississippi valley[85]
- Phelps & Thornhill, Rutherford County[86]
- G. L. Pierce, Nashville[87]
- Rees W. Porter, Giles County and Nashville[33][34][88][26][89]
- Dr. Joseph Powell, Elizabethton[90]
- William Ramsey, Nashville and Virginia[33]
- John Rath, Smith Co., Tenn.[91]
- Dr. Ray, Tennessee (?) and Mississippi[92]
- Redman, Mississippi and Tennessee[93]
- John Reed, Tennessee and Mississippi[94]
- Robertson & Currey (Duncan Robertson and Robert Currey), Nashville[13]
- W. S. Rogers, Virginia, North Carolina, and Knoxville, Tenn.[90]
- David Saffarans & Son (possibly, per Chase Mooney)[24]
- Thomas G. Saunders, Nashville[95]
- John Staples, Memphis[96]
- L. E. Temple, Nashville[13]
- Thompson, near Nashville, Tennessee[12]
- Tom Tucker, Knoxville, Tenn.[97]
- Vanhook, Tennessee[98]
- A. Wallace, Memphis[23][9][99]
- John D. Ware, Memphis and Brownsville[15][100]
- Warwick, Nashville[101]
- Webb, Nashville[26]
- Webb, Merrill & Co., Nashville[55][51][88][102]
- Frank Whiterspoon, Missouri and Tennessee[103]
- John Wilkerson, Memphis[14]
- Alexander Williams, Nashville[104]
- Henry Williams, Nashville[34]
- Williams & Glover, Nashville[105]
- E. L. Willie, Memphis[9]
- Jerry Wilson, Tennessee[106]
- William Witherspoon, Memphis[23]
See also
- List of slave traders of the United States
- History of slavery in Tennessee
- List of Alabama slave traders
- List of District of Columbia slave traders
- List of Georgia and Florida slave traders
- List of Kentucky slave traders
- List of Maryland and Delaware slave traders
- List of Missouri slave traders
- 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
