List of slave traders of the United States

This is a list of slave traders of the United States, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States, i.e. the buying and selling of human chattel as commodities, primarily African-American people in the Southern United States, from the declaration of independence in 1776 until the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865. People who dealt in enslaved indigenous persons, such as was the case with slavery in California, would also be included. This list represents a fraction of the "many hundreds of participants in a cruel and omnipresent" American market.

The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves was passed in 1808 under the so-called Star-Spangled Banner flag, when there were 15 states in the Union, closing the transatlantic slave trade and setting the stage for the interstate slave trade in the U.S. Over 50 years later, in 1865, the last American slave sale was made somewhere in the rebel Confederacy. In the intervening years, the politics surrounding the addition of 20 new states to the Union had been almost overwhelmingly dominated by whether or not those states would have legal slavery. Slavery was widespread, so slave trading was widespread, and "When a planter died, failed in business, divided his estate, needed ready money to satisfy a mortgage or pay a gambling debt, or desired to get rid of an unruly Negro, traders struck a profitable bargain." A slave trader might have described himself as a broker, auctioneer, general agent, or commission merchant, and often sold real estate, personal property, and livestock in addition to enslaved people. Many large trading firms also had field agents, whose job it was to go to more remote towns and rural areas, buying up enslaved people for resale elsewhere. Field agents stood lower in the hierarchy, and are generally poorly studied, in part due to lack of records, but field agents for Austin Woolfolk, for example, "served only a year or two at best and usually on a part-time basis. No fortunes were to be made as local agents." On the other end of the financial spectrum from the agents were the investors—usually wealthy planters like David Burford, John Springs III, and Chief Justice John Marshall —who fronted cash to slave speculators. They did not escort coffles or run auctions themselves, but they did parlay their enslaving expertise into profits.

Countless slaves were also sold at courthouse auctions by county sheriffs and U.S. marshals to satisfy court judgments, settle estates, and to "cover jail fees"; individuals involved in those sales are not the primary focus of this list.

Note: Research by Michael Tadman has found that "'core' sources provide only a basic skeleton of a much more substantial trade" in enslaved people throughout the South, with particular deficits in records of rural slave trading, already wealthy people who speculated to grow their wealth further, and in all private sales that occurred outside auction houses and negro marts.



List is organized by surname of trader, or name of firm, where principals have not been further identified.

Note: Charleston and Charles Town, Virginia are distinct places that later became Charleston, West Virginia, and Charles Town, West Virginia, respectively, and neither is to be confused with Charleston, South Carolina.

"We must have a market for human flesh, or we are ruined."

A–B

 * Anderson D. Abraham, Buckingham Co., Va.
 * Robert S. Adams, Aberdeen, Miss.
 * Adkin & Boikin, Virginia
 * Thomas Alexander, Charleston, S.C.
 * Dr. James Alston, North Carolina
 * Samuel Alsop, Fredericksburg
 * Anderson, Alabama
 * David Anderson, Kentucky
 * John W. Anderson, Mason Co., Ky. and Natchez
 * James Andrews, New Orleans
 * Andrews & Hatcher, New Orleans
 * Henry Andrius, New Orleans
 * George W. Apperson
 * John Armfield
 * Francis Arnolds, Carolinas
 * Jordan Arterburn and Tarlton Arterburn, Louisville, Ky.
 * Britton Atkins, Blountsville and Montgomery, Ala.
 * Austin, Georgia
 * George Austin, Charleston, S.C.
 * Lewis L. Austin
 * Robert Austin, Charleston, S.C.
 * David Avery, Alabama
 * A. K. Ayer, Columbus, Ga.
 * Thomas Bagby, Macon, Ga.
 * William K. Bagby, Atlanta, Ga.
 * Baget & King, North Carolina
 * J. Russell Baker, Charleston, S.C.
 * Robert M. Balch, Memphis
 * Rice C. Ballard, Richmond
 * William Ballard
 * Richard Balton or Bolton
 * Barnard & Howard, Montgomery, Ala.
 * Barrum, Virginia and Mississippi
 * Reuben Bartlett, St. Louis, Mo. and Nashville
 * Bates, Virginia and Mobile, Ala.
 * Kinchen Battoe, Kentucky
 * George Richard Beard
 * J. A. Beard & May, New Orleans
 * Joseph A. Beard
 * Beard and Calhoun
 * Bearly & Robert
 * Richard Renard Beasley
 * Robert Beasley, Macon, Ga.
 * Bebee, Atlanta, Ga.
 * William Beck, Glasgow, Ky.
 * George W. Behn
 * Samuel Bennett, Natchez
 * Bennett & Rhett, Charleston, S.C.
 * William Betts, Richmond
 * Betts & Cochran, Richmond
 * Betts & Gregory, Richmond
 * Beverly
 * William Biggs & Lyman Harding, Natchez
 * James H. Birch, District of Columbia and Alexandria, Va.
 * Richard Chambers Bishop
 * C. J. Blackman, Yazoo City, Miss.
 * Blackwell, Murphy & Ferguson, Forks of the Road, Natchez, Miss.
 * James G. Blakey
 * Joseph G. Blakey
 * Blakely, Virginia
 * Blount & Dawson, Savannah
 * J. W. Boazman, New Orleans
 * Bolton, Dickens & Co.
 * Robert Booth, Richmond and Alabama
 * Botts
 * Thomas Boudar, New Orleans
 * J. E. Bowers, Charleston, S.C.
 * Boyce, near Frankfort, Ky.
 * Robert Boyce
 * Boyce, Hamburg and Charleston, S.C.
 * William L. Boyd Jr., Nashville
 * Dr. Brady, Hopkinsville, Ky.
 * C. C. Bragg, Charles Town, Va.
 * Robert B. Brashear, Salem, Va. and Alexandria, Va.
 * Richard Brenan
 * Elijah Brittingham, Virginia and New Orleans
 * Thack Brodnax
 * Henry Brooks, Georgia
 * S. N. Brown & Co., Montgomery, Ala.
 * Brown & Taylor, Vicksburg, Miss.
 * Brown & Watson, Montgomery, Ala.
 * Browning, Moore & Co., Richmond
 * Joseph Bruin, Alexandria, Va.
 * Alexander Bryan, Savannah
 * Joseph Bryan, Savannah
 * S. E. Buford, Jefferson City, La.
 * Zachariah Bugg
 * Redmond Bunn, Macon, Ga.
 * Willie Burrows, Virginia?

C

 * Joseph Caldwell, Virginia
 * Bernard M. Campbell, Walter L. Campbell, and relations, Baltimore and New Orleans,
 * Capers & Heyward, Charleston, S.C.
 * Charles Carson & Smith, Burke Co., N.C. and New Orleans
 * John Carter and Jesse Carter, Virginia
 * Joshua Cates, Christian County, Ky.
 * William Cavendish, New Orleans
 * Leon Chabert, Louisiana
 * Col. Benjamin Chambers, Baltimore
 * John W. Chrisp, Memphis
 * John Clark, Louisville, Ky.
 * Robert M. Clarke, Atlanta, Ga.
 * Amaziah Cobb, Georgia
 * James G. Cobb, Alexandria, Va.
 * John Cocks, Point Coupee, La.
 * Joseph Coffman
 * Levi and Solomon Cohen, Atlanta, Ga.
 * Edward Collier
 * Lewis A. Collier, Richmond, Va.
 * Asa Collins, Lexington, Ky.
 * A. B. Colwell, Lexington, Ky.
 * Mr. Cooper, Kentucky
 * James Cooper, Montgomery, Ala.
 * Joseph M. Cooper, Macon, Ga.
 * Richard Cooper
 * William Cooper, Alabama
 * W. S. Cothron, Floyd, Ga.
 * Cotton & Wakefield
 * Crawford, Frazer & Co., Atlanta, Ga., principals Robert Crawford, Addison D. Frazer, and Thomas Lafayette Frazer
 * Elihu Creswell, New Orleans
 * William Crow, Charles Town, Va.
 * Seraphin Cuculla

D–F

 * John P. Darg, New Orleans
 * Davis, Petersburg, Va.
 * Ansley Davis, Petersburg, Va.
 * George Davis, Maryland
 * Hector Davis, Richmond
 * John B. Davis, Richmond
 * Mark Davis and Benjamin Davis, Richmond and New Orleans
 * R. H. Davis, Virginia
 * Solomon Davis, Richmond
 * W. C. Davis, Louisville, Ky.
 * Davis, Dupree & Co., Richmond
 * Samuel J. Dawson, Washington, D.C. and Alabama


 * William C. Dawson, Savannah


 * Anderson Delap, Nelson Delap, and Norman Delap, Memphis


 * John N. Denning, Baltimore
 * Green Dennis, Mobile, Alabama
 * Charles de Gaalon
 * William Deupree, Richmond
 * Deupree & Williams, Greensboro, Ala.
 * Louis D. DeSaussure, Charleston
 * Dickson, New Orleans and Mississippi
 * Dickinson & Hill, Virginia
 * Richard H. Dickinson, Richmond
 * C. W. Diggs
 * James B. Diggs
 * Joseph S. Donovan, Baltimore
 * Jilson Dove, Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland
 * James Dowell, Virginia
 * Downing & Hughes, Kentucky
 * Dryer
 * James Dunahow
 * Dupree
 * Dyer family, District of Columbia
 * Eaton, New Orleans
 * Benjamin C. Eaton
 * Simeon G. Eddins and brothers, Fayetteville, Tenn.
 * Alexander N. Edmonds, Memphis
 * R. H. Elam, New Orleans and Forks of the Road, Natchez, Miss.
 * W. Ellis, South Carolina
 * English, North Carolina and Mississippi
 * Joseph Ennells, Pennsylvania
 * Henry Fairbanks, Baltimore
 * Ben Farley, New Orleans
 * Elias Ferguson, North Carolina
 * Robert W. Fenwick, Washington, D.C.
 * John Ferman, Alabama
 * James L. Ficklin, Charleston, Va.
 * Obadiah Fields, North Carolina
 * Fields & Gresham, Atlanta, Ga.
 * Hugh Fisher, Louisiana
 * David Fitzpatrick, Vicksburg, Miss.
 * John D. Fondren, Mississippi
 * Samuel Fondren, Richmond
 * Ford, Kentucky, Mississippi, and New Orleans


 * Nathan Bedford Forrest, John N. Forrest, Aaron H. Forrest, William H. Forrest, Jesse A. Forrest, and Jeffrey E. Forrest, Memphis, and Grenada and Vicksburg, Miss.
 * H. Forsyth, Statesville, N.C.
 * John W. Forward
 * Thomas Foster, New Orleans
 * Mass or Marcy Fountain, Maryland and Delaware
 * Isaac Franklin, New Orleans
 * James Rawlings Franklin
 * Captain Frazier
 * John Freeman, New Orleans
 * Theophilus Freeman, New Orleans
 * Thomas J. Frisby, New Orleans
 * Mr. Fry, Delaware

G–H

 * Thomas Norman Gadsden, Charleston
 * Benjamin Gaines, Alabama
 * Mr. Gaines (or Gains or Goins)
 * Galbert, Texas
 * Lewis Garland, North Carolina
 * Matthew Garrison, Louisville, Ky.
 * J. C. Gentry, Louisville, Ky.
 * John M. Gilchrist, Charleston
 * John Gildersleeves, New Bern, N.C.
 * William Gillesbey, North Carolina and Mississippi
 * Alexander Gilliam, Richmond
 * C. E. Girardey & Co., New Orleans
 * James Gladiss, North Carolina
 * T. Glen, Huntsville, Ala.
 * William Glover, Elizabeth City, North Carolina
 * Thomas Golden, Fairfax, Va.
 * John Goodin, Randolph County, Ala.
 * John Gordon, Alabama
 * Gordan or Gordon, Maryland and Mississippi
 * Thomas Goude
 * Grady & Tate, Richmond, Va.
 * James Grant, New Orleans
 * Hinton Graves, Georgia
 * William Green
 * Griffin & Pullum, Natchez, Miss., principals Pierce Griffin, W. A. Pullum, A. Blackwell, F. G. Murphy
 * George Griffin, Georgia
 * S. H. Griffin, Atlanta
 * William H Griggs, Virginia
 * Lewis K. Grigsby, Natchez, Miss.
 * Andrew Grimm
 * E. Guyton, Baltimore
 * W. H. Gwin, St. Louis and Virginia


 * John Hagan and family, South Carolina and New Orleans
 * Henry C. Halcomb, Atlanta, Ga.
 * O. R. Haley, Mississippi
 * Frederick A. Hall, Mobile, Ala.
 * William W. Hall, Norfolk, Va.
 * Thomas Hanly, Halifax Co., Va.
 * Benjamin Hansford, Natchez
 * James B. Hargrove, E. P. Aistrop, & N. A. Mitchell, Lynchburg, Va.
 * William Harker, Baltimore and Dorchester, Md.
 * Harris, Alabama
 * Harris, Virginia
 * George Harris, Georgia
 * John Harris, Kentucky and possibly kidnapping in Richmond, Indiana
 * John F. Harris, Natchez
 * O. C. and S. Y. Harris, Upper Marlboro, Md.
 * Harrison, Washington County, Ky.
 * Charles S. Harrison, Columbus, Ga.
 * Mason Harwell, Montgomery, Ala.
 * C. F. Hatcher, New Orleans
 * J. T. Hatcher, New Orleans
 * E. S. Hawkins, Nashville
 * John Hawkins, Virginia & Robert Hawkins, Mississippi
 * William Hawkins
 * Henry H. Haynes, Nashville
 * W. H. Henderson, Atlanta, Ga.
 * Herring, Vicksburg, Miss.
 * W. C. Hewitt, Macon, Ga.
 * Hewlett & Bright, New Orleans
 * Julius Hich, Alabama
 * Byrd Hill, Memphis & William C. Hill, Memphis
 * Charles Hill, Richmond
 * Nathaniel Boush Hill and Charles B. Hill, Richmond
 * Hill & Hartwell, Montgomery, Ala.
 * Hill & Powell, Memphis
 * G. H. Hitchings, Nashville
 * Samuel Hite, New Orleans
 * Edward Home, Alexandria, Va.
 * Judge Houston, Hopkinsville, Ky.
 * James Huie & Robert Huie
 * James Huie and Josiah Huie, Rowan County, North Carolina
 * J. Hull
 * Thomas Hundley, Halifax Co. Va. and New Orleans
 * Tillman Hunt
 * William Hunt
 * Foster Hurst, New Orleans
 * John S. Hutcherson, Georgetown, D.C.

I–L

 * Inman, Cole & Co., Atlanta, Ga.
 * C. S. Irvine, Greenville District, S.C.
 * O. B. Irvine, Greenville District, S.C.
 * Barnabas Ivy, Duplin Co., N.C.
 * Andrew Jackson, Bruinsburgh, Natchez District, Spanish West Florida
 * Waddy I. Jackson, Alabama
 * John D. James, Natchez, Miss.
 * Thomas James
 * Thomas D. James, Natchez, Miss.
 * Thomas G. James, Nashville
 * Isaac Jarratt, Huntsville, Ala.
 * William Jenkins, Nashville
 * Thomas J. Jennings & Co., Hamburg, S.C.
 * James Jervey, Charleston
 * Johnson & Apperson
 * John L. Johnson, Washington, D.C.
 * Joseph Johnson, Ebenezer Johnson & Patty Cannon, Northwest Fork Hundred, Delaware
 * Richard Johnson & Jesse Meek, Tennessee and Forks of the Road
 * Sherman Johnson, New Orleans
 * William Johnson, St. Louis, Mo.
 * Theodore Johnston, New Orleans
 * A. E. Jones, Talbott County, Md.
 * Leroy Jones, Alexandria, Va.
 * S. S. Jones, De Soto, Miss.
 * Jones & Robinson, Georgia
 * Jones & Slater, Richmond, Va.


 * George T. Kausler, New Orleans
 * William H. Kelly, Louisville, Ky.
 * James Kelly, Kentucky
 * James Kemp
 * Benjamin Kendig, New Orleans
 * Bernard Kendig, New Orleans
 * Edward J. Kendrick
 * George Kephart, Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia
 * Simon Kern, Richmond
 * Jesse Kirby and John Kirby, Virginia and Georgia
 * Moses Kirkpatrick, New Orleans
 * Charles Lamarque, New Orleans
 * John Lane, Virginia and South Carolina
 * Major Lane, New Orleans
 * Tedence Lane, Mississippi
 * Henry Laurens, Charleston, S.C.
 * Lavon & Foster, Montgomery, Ala.
 * N. M. Lee, Virginia
 * E. P. Legg, District of Columbia
 * Legg & Williams, Annapolis, Md.
 * Laferriere Levesque
 * Mr. Leake, Virginia
 * J. & L. T. Levin, Columbia, S.C.
 * Lillard & Slaughter, Mississippi
 * A. Lilly, New Orleans
 * Benjamin Little, Montgomery Little, Chauncey Little & William Little, Memphis and Shelbyville, Tenn.
 * John W. Lindsey, Montgomery, Ala.
 * Livingston, Hanna & Co., Vicksburg, Miss.
 * William Locket, New Orleans
 * E. Loftin, New Orleans
 * B. F. Logan, Caddo, La.
 * Charles Logan
 * R. W. Long, New Orleans
 * R. W. Long & Mull
 * Lowe & Simmons, Columbus, Ga.
 * Robert Lumpkin, Richmond
 * Lumpkin & Jones
 * Lumpkin & Locket
 * Robert Lyle & George W. Hitching, Nashville and Sumner Co., Tenn.
 * Bernard M. Lynch, St. Louis

M, Mc

 * Maddock, Tennessee
 * Maffitt, Mississippi
 * Thomas Magruder, Washington, D.C.
 * John D. Mallory, Virginia and eastern Mississippi
 * Manor, Alabama
 * Josiah Maples, Memphis
 * Silas Marshall & Bro., Lexington, Ky.
 * John Martin
 * W. B. Martin, New Orleans
 * Mason & Howard, Montgomery, Ala.
 * John Mason, Natchez, Miss.
 * Mathews, New Orleans
 * James G. Mathews, Louisville, Ky.
 * Thomas E. Matthews, New Orleans
 * Matthews, Branton & Co., Natchez, Miss.
 * John Mattingly, Louisville, Ky. and St. Louis, Mo.
 * Mayer, Jacobe, & Co., Atlanta
 * A. B. McAfee, St. Louis, Mo.
 * McAfee & Blakey, St. Louis
 * J. A. McArthur, Clinton, N.C.
 * Michael McBride
 * F. McCann, Hagerstown, Md.
 * Thomas McCargo
 * McCerran, Landry & Co., New Orleans
 * John McCleskey, Mobile, Ala.
 * Mr. McClinton, Richmond
 * David McDaniel, Virginia and Macon, Ga.
 * H. J. McDaniel, Winchester, Va.
 * James McDonald, South Cadid
 * McDonald, Virginia and Georgia
 * Alexander McDonald and Hugh McDonald, Charleston
 * Elijah McDowell, Charles Town, Va. and Winchester, Va.
 * William McGee
 * John M. McGehee & Thomas McGehee
 * A. A. McLean, Nashville
 * J. B. McLendon, Lynchburg, Va.
 * John McKane, North Carolina and Alabama
 * D. McKay, North Carolina
 * J. M. McKee, Girard, Ala.
 * McKeller, Virginia or North Carolina?
 * James McMillin, Kentucky
 * Joseph Meek, Nashville
 * Meinhard brothers, Savannah
 * R. H. Melton, Richmond and Louisiana
 * C. A. & I. S. Merrill, Mississippi
 * L. D. Merrimon, also Merrimon & Clinkscales, Greenwood, S.C.
 * William H. Merritt, New Orleans
 * D. Middleton, New Orleans
 * Thomas Milburn, Washington, D.C.
 * Miller and Sutler
 * James S. Moffett, Troy, Tenn.
 * John S. Montmollin, Savannah
 * Benjamin Mordecai
 * Henry E. Moore, Plaquemine, Louisiana
 * James Moore, Virginia and Alabama
 * Peter Moore, Virginia
 * William Moore, Carolinas
 * Moore & Dawson, Richmond
 * James T. Morris, Wilmington, N.C.
 * Arthur Mosely, Virginia and Mississippi
 * J. F. Moses, Lumpkin, Ga.
 * Mullinnac
 * Myers & Thomas, Columbus, Ga.

N–P

 * Thomas Napier, Macon, Ga.
 * Mr. Nash, Caswell or Rockingham County, N.C.
 * Joseph W. Neal, District of Columbia
 * Alexander Nelson, Guilford County, N.C.
 * Nelson & Cobb, South Carolina
 * Isaac Neville, Memphis
 * Julian Neville, New Orleans
 * James Nichols, Halifax County, Va.
 * George Nixon, Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama
 * G. H. Noel, Macon, Ga.
 * George N. Noel, Memphis
 * James G. Noel, Macon, Ga.
 * Ziba B. Oakes, Charleston
 * William Oldham, Natchez
 * A. C. Omohundro & Co., Mississippi
 * Silas Omohundro, Richmond
 * A. J. Orr, Macon, Ga.
 * Thomas Otey
 * Overly & Saunders, Petersburg, Va.
 * Abraham Owens, Halifax County, Va.
 * Owings & Charles, New Orleans
 * Benjamin Parks
 * Parker, Vicksburg, Miss.
 * Edward A. Parker, Macon, Ga.
 * James Parker, Dinwiddie County, Va.
 * P. Pascal, Natchez
 * Paul Pascal
 * Peck, Washington County, Ky.
 * Archibald Perkins, Virginia
 * Everett Peterson, Clinton, N.C.
 * Henry F. Peterson, New Orleans
 * John Parker Pettiway, New Orleans
 * R.A. Peuyeur, Natchez
 * Isaac Phillips
 * W. R. Phillips, Macon, Ga.
 * G. B. Philippe
 * George I. Pitts, Columbus, Ga.
 * John J. Poindexter, New Orleans
 * Thomas B. Poindexter, New Orleans and Mississippi
 * Ephraim G. Ponder, Thomasville, Ga.
 * P. J. Porcher & Baya, Charleston (Philip Johnston Porcher & Hanero T. Baya )
 * Powell & Co., Montgomery, Ala.
 * A. S. C. Powell, Clinton, N.C.
 * Benjamin Ward Powell, Natchez, Miss., Louisville, Ky. and New Orleans
 * Luke Powell, Clinton, N.C.
 * Thomas A. Powell, Louisville, Ky. and Montgomery, Ala. and St. Louis, and New Orleans
 * John B. Prentis, Virginia
 * Price, Birch & Co., Alexandria, Va., principals J. C. Cook, Charles M. Price, George Kephart, William H. Birch
 * William Price, Cumberland County, Virginia, and Mississippi
 * Pryor
 * William A. Pullum, Lexington, Ky.
 * D. M. Pullium, Richmond, Va.
 * Pullium & Co., Virginia
 * James Franklin Purvis (and Isaac F. Purvis), Baltimore
 * Alexander Puryear
 * R. C. Puryear
 * Alexander Putney, North Carolina and Mississippi

R

 * Ragland, Mobile, Ala.
 * Reuben Ragland, Petersburg, Va.
 * Bernard Raux, Virginia
 * R. D. P. Read, Lynchburg, Va.
 * Redford and Kelly, Kentucky
 * Redman, Noxubee County, Mississippi
 * Thomas Redman
 * Reynolds, Louisville, Ky.
 * Jesse Rice, Virginia
 * Zachariah A. Rice, Atlanta, Ga.
 * William H. Richards, Washington, D.C.
 * John S. Riggs, Charleston
 * Tench Ringold, Washington, D.C.
 * Alfred O. Robards, Kentucky
 * Lewis C. Robards, Lexington, Ky.
 * Robe & Anderson, Alabama
 * Roberson, Maryland and South Carolina
 * George Robertson and John Robertson, Virginia and New Orleans
 * John Robertson, Mississippi and either New Orleans or Mobile
 * William H. Robertson, Mobile, Ala.
 * John Edward Robey, Washington, D.C.
 * Washington Robey, Washington, D.C.
 * Robinson, South Carolina and Georgia
 * John Robinson, Georgia
 * Col. Allen Rogers, Wake, N.C.
 * Noah Rollins
 * Richard Rolton
 * David Ross, Louisville, Ky.
 * Rowan & Harris, Mississippi
 * George Rust Jr.
 * C. M. Rutherford, New Orleans
 * E. M. Rutherford
 * A. J. Rux, Alabama
 * Thomas Ryan, Charleston

S

 * A. J. Salinas, Charleston
 * Sanders & Foster
 * Thomas Sanders, Washington County, Virginia, and Mississippi
 * Jourdan M. Saunders, Warrenton, Va.
 * A. C. Scott, Louisville, Ky.
 * David Scott
 * Lewis Scott, Baltimore
 * A. K. Seago, Atlanta, Ga.
 * John R. Sedgwick, North Carolina
 * Joseph Semmes, Georgetown, D.C.
 * Sharp, Montgomery, Ala.
 * J. M. E. Sharp, Columbia, S.C.
 * J. M. F. Sharp, New Orleans
 * J. W. Sharp, New Orleans
 * Lewis N. Shelton
 * Shivers, of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia
 * Simmons, Virginia and Georgia
 * William Simpson, North Carolina
 * R. W. Sinclair, Kentucky
 * Henry F. Slatter, Baltimore and New Orleans
 * Hope H. Slatter, Baltimore
 * Shadrack F. Slatter, New Orleans
 * Robert Slaughter, Natchez, Miss.
 * B. D. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.
 * Benjamin Smith, Charleston, S.C.
 * Gardner Smith & Co., New Orleans
 * John B. Smith, New Orleans
 * John W. Smith, Washington, D.C.
 * Thomas Jefferson Smith
 * David J. Southerland, Wilmington, N.C.
 * Samuel Spears
 * John Springs III, York District, S.C.
 * John Staples, Memphis


 * L. R. Starkes


 * Charles T. Stevens, Clinton, N.C.


 * John Stickney, Louisville, Ky.
 * E. H. Stokes, Virginia
 * Mr. Stokes, North Carolina and Mississippi
 * Edward Stone and Howard Stone, Bourbon County, Ky.
 * Samuel Stone, Danville, Va.
 * George Stovall, New Orleans
 * Pleasant Stovall, Augusta, Ga.
 * G. F. Stubbs, Macon, Ga.
 * A. A. Suarez
 * Sutler

T–Y

 * Bacon Tait, Virginia
 * Tait & Garland, Virginia and Mississippi
 * M. Talbert, Liberty, Mo.
 * William F. Talbott, Louisville, Ky.
 * Tannehill, New Orleans
 * Belthazer Tardy, Mobile, Ala.
 * H. & J. W. Taylor, Clinton, La.
 * J. T. Taylor, New Orleans
 * H. N. Templeman
 * Richard Terrell, New Orleans
 * Terry, Virginia
 * William Tisdale, North Carolina
 * Philip Thomas
 * Corbin Thompson, St. Louis, Mo.
 * Mr. Thompson, Baltimore and the lands of the Cherokee nation
 * Thomson, Little Rock, Arkansas


 * Todd


 * John Toler
 * Tomkins, North Carolina
 * Clement Townsend
 * Townshend & Lewis, Mississippi
 * Thomas P. Trotter
 * N. C. Trowbridge, Augusta, Ga. & Hamburg, S.C.
 * Tom Tucker, Knoxville, Tenn.
 * Mr. Turner, Virginia
 * Urley, Mississippi
 * Vaughan, Virginia
 * Norbert Vignié, New Orleans
 * Wadkins, Virginia and Georgia
 * Mat Warner, Virginia and Georgia
 * Benjamin W. Walker, Jackson, Miss.
 * Samuel Wakefield, Natchez
 * A. Wallace, Memphis
 * J. D. Ware, Memphis
 * Morton Waring, Charleston
 * William Watkins, Atlanta, Ga.
 * William T. Watkins
 * J. Watson, Louisville, Ky.
 * Richard Watson, Louisville, Ky. and New Orleans
 * Webb, Merrill & Co., Nashville
 * A. Weisemann, New Orleans
 * Joseph A. Weatherly
 * Thomas C. Weatherly
 * Weatherly, Breden & Bagget, Yazoo City, Miss.
 * Weatherly and Donald, Alabama
 * Anderson West, Marion County, Ala.
 * Weatherby, Augusta, Ga.
 * Wetherby, Pigsah, Miss.
 * Wetherby, Prairie Bluff, Ala.
 * James Whidby
 * White, Lexington, Mo.
 * Alonzo J. White, Charleston
 * James White, New Orleans
 * John White
 * John R. White, St. Louis and New Orleans
 * Maunsel White & Co., New Orleans
 * Joseph A. Whitaker, Rosehill, N.C.
 * Whitaker & Turner, Atlanta, Ga.
 * Whitfield, North Carolina
 * Moses J. Wicks, Aberdeen, Miss.
 * Wilbur & Son, Charleston
 * James P. Wilkinson
 * Lewis E. Williams, Campbell Co., Va.
 * Thomas Williams, Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Vidalia, Miss.
 * Williams H. Williams
 * Williams, Washington, D.C.
 * Williams & Glover, Nashville
 * Thomas Taylor Williamson, South Carolina and Louisiana
 * Williamson & Puryear, Montgomery, Ala.
 * James B. Williamson
 * William Williamson
 * J. M. Wilson, Baltimore and New Orleans
 * William Winbush, Virginia
 * Winfield, Mississippi
 * Winston & Dixon, Georgia
 * Lewis Winters, Baltimore
 * David Wise, New Orleans
 * William Witherspoon, Memphis
 * Joseph Woods
 * John Woodden, Virginia and Alabama
 * Seth Woodroof, Lynchburg, Va.
 * Austin Woolfolk, Baltimore
 * John Woolfolk, Natchez, Miss.
 * Joseph B. Woolfolk, Eastern Shore, Maryland
 * Samuel Martin Woolfolk, New Orleans and Baltimore
 * Woolfolk
 * Woolfolks, Sanders & Overley (Richard Woolfolk, Robert Sanders, and Thomas W. Overley)
 * James Worth, Alabama
 * George Wylly, Savannah
 * Mr. Wythe
 * Absolom Yancey
 * Charles Yancey and Jackson Yancey, Norfolk, Va. and Oxford, N.C.
 * Mr. Yeatman, Virginia
 * C. A. Yeats, Port Tobacco, Md.
 * Charles Young, New Orleans
 * J. Winbush Young, Virginia

It's old Van Horn, de nigger trader Hilo! Hilo! He sold his wife to buy a nigger Hilo! Hilo! He sold her first to Louisianner Hilo! Hilo! And den from dat to Alabammer Hilo! Hilo!

— said to be a fragment of a much longer "negro corn-shucking song," also called a working song or field holler; published 1859

"I never knew a slave-trader that did not seem to think, in his heart, that the trade was a bad one. I knew a great many of them, such as Neal, McAnn, Cobb, Stone, Pulliam, and Davis, &c. They were like Haley, they meant to repent when they got through."