She was sold for $1250 to one of the most lecherous-looking old brutes I ever set eyes on, the reporter noted. I grew up in the Deep South, and I am familiar with such ideas, shared by many whites in Mr. Thomsons generation. That applies to Southern history, to slave history. The fireflies come out in the dwindling dusk. Last fall and this past spring, the Library of Virginia, in Richmond, and the Historic New Orleans Collection, in Louisiana, working separately, put together large exhibitions about the domestic slave trade. Not a single offer, Waller wrote. Their success was immense: The duo amassed a fortune worth several billions in todays dollars and retired as two of the nations wealthiest men, according to Joshua Rothman, a professor of history at the University of Alabama who is writing a book on Franklin and Armfield. A plate of pokeweed yanked up from the field and put on the table is one way of saying a mess. Blair shifts metaphors. What to do or where to go I know notI am surrounded by difficulty, he brooded. Thomson says he is 74, but he looks 60. As the steamboat churned to dock, it passed ships berthed five or six deep, miles of them, from all nations of the earth, bringing in their products and carrying away ours. The arrival, gangplank on the levee, cargo everywhere. Around the 20th of that month the caravan began to assemble in front of the companys offices in Alexandria, at 1315 Duke Street. We had a guy that doubled as a driver and supervised the warehouse. It is possible, of course, that Isaac Franklin sold his daughter. Buyers looked at the people, took them inside, made them undress, studied their teeth, told them to dance, asked them about their work, and, most important, looked at their backs. Today the Great Wagon Road, or Valley Turnpike, is known as U.S. Route 11, a two-lane that runs between soft and misty mountains, with pretty byways. Descendants of a slave trading family come to Sewanee to search for their history and find it tangled up with the University's own painful truth about its founding. He said his own father knew the name of the people who had enslaved their family in Virginia, knew where they livedin the same house and on the same landin Hanover County, among the rumpled hills north of Richmond. It took two days wages if you earned 50 cents a day, what freedpeoplea new wordwere starting to get for work. Men on one side, in order of height and weight, women on the other. And that includes about Isaac Franklin. John's three married daughters had remained in Pennsylvania. You cant judge those people by todays standardsyou cant judge anybody by our standards. Literacy had been against the law for slaves, so few of the four million knew how to write. Tell me, aint you my child whom I left on the road near Mr. Moores before the war? I broke down and began to cry. Red flags fluttered down the streets in Richmond, on Wall Street in Shockoe Bottom, she said. A typical display placed an 8-year-old girl on the left end of a line, and then ten people like stair steps up to the right end, ending with a 30-year-old woman, who might be the first girls mother. I mean, just gung-ho., Thomson gets up and walks through the house, pointing out the ample Franklin memorabilia. I mean, people who do not understand the old lifestylestheir standpoint on life, and their education, are what today we consider limited. The current names of the streets that form the ForksLiberty Road and DEvereaux Drivediffer from the old ones. That would be more than $440 million today.. History The history of Beersheba Springs Assembly is complicated; birthed in a spirit of healing and retreat, it thrived from the capital investment of notorious slave trader John Armfield. Then, hed send the group on an arduous 1,000-mile march to slave markets in Natchez or New Orleans or hed stuff them into one of the companys three massive ships to make the same journey by water. But as Waller drifted through Mississippi, he couldnt sell anyone. Whether youre a lifelong resident of D.C. or you just moved here, weve got you covered. There is no branch of trade, in this part of the country, more brisk and profitable than that of buying and selling negroes, a traveler named Estwick Evans wrote about Natchez in the early 19th century. They say there were no feelings here.. For buyers, these were interpreted not as signs of a masters cruelty, but of a workers defiance. But here, they were marching through wilderness. Can anyone inform me of the whereabouts of John Person, the son of Hannah Person, of Alexandria, Va., who belonged to Alexander Sancter? Of course, that is only some.. But he had three brothers, and there are hundreds of their descendants living all around the country. This sorting arrangement meant that it was more likely children would be sold from their parents. The St. Louis Hotel is one of several places that can be identified as once-upon-a-time slave-trading sites. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. Its been six years since Rothman began his research, crisscrossing the country to scour old documents such as property transactions in Louisiana, court cases in Mississippi, ship manifests in Alexandria. Here it is. Watching the things burn. That comes to $140,000, or about $3.5 million today. It would have been the easiest thing to do. His plantation is gone, but this is where he arranged for a married couple, neighbors, to see Wallers Virginia gang. Kenneth Thomson brings out some daguerreotypes of the Franklins and others in his family tree. They were sorted by sex and size and made to stand in sequence. Boxley left Natchez in 1960, at age 20. After Emancipation, now a freedman of about 20, Glenn remembered the name of his hometownRoxboro. Map sources: Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond; Edward Ball; Guilbert Gates; Dacus Thompson; Sonya Maynard, Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library, Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, AP Photo/The Natchez Democrat, Ben Hillyer, Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine now for just $12. Thats on the Internet. The original John Armfield, from whom all the Armfields of whom we know were descended, was born in the north of England in 1695. The older I get, the more tolerant I become. He was the co-founder of Franklin & Armfield, "the largest slave trading firm" in the United States. While enslaved people waited in Franklin and Armfields holding pen in Alexandria, the two men most likely adopted classic techniques employed by slave traders to enhance enslaved peoples salability, McInnis said. Waller had never been to such a big city. These were stores and taverns with places to sleep in the back. The old railroad station, a wooden building with deep eaves, is a used-record store. In 1832, at age 43, supremely rich from 20 years as a long-distance trader, Franklin built a big house on 2,000 acres outside Gallatin. This movement lasted longer and grabbed up more people than any other migration in North America before 1900. From the beginning, they divvied the work according to each mans strength: Armfield, based in Virginia, managed the buying side of things and arranged transportation, Rothman said. The labels in the coats once read, Brooks Brothers. She is in the French Quarter, in a gallery of the archive where she works, and all around her are artifacts about the slave trade. And there were lots of them. That is the equivalent of $35,000 today. Approaching the former Franklin house, I pass the golf course and clubhouse. Armfield has at least one direct black descendant, Rodney Williams, who wrote about his heritage - which he said he discovered through DNA testing - in an essay included in "Slavery's. The exchanges granite facade can be still found on Chartres Street near the corner of St. Louis Street. In a statement, the President extended his condolences to Salilig's bereaved family. She moved with her parents to New Garden Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina. Among the people who lived in these parts was John Randolph, a congressman and a cousin of Thomas Jefferson. This forced resettlement was 20 times larger than Andrew Jacksons Indian removal campaigns of the 1830s, which gave rise to the original Trail of Tears as it drove tribes of Native Americans out of Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama. The other half walked from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi River, 1,100 miles, with riverboat steerage for short distances along the way. Today, on the same spot, a six-lane bridge crosses the New River, and there is a town called Radford, population 16,000. Today as then, Raymond, Mississippi, is a crossroads, population 2,000. Franklin, meanwhile, stayed mostly in Natchez, Miss., and was responsible for selling their human cargo to plantations in the Deep South. Later the same wagons hauled those who had collapsed and could not be roused with a whip. In my family, people looked after their slaves, he said. Well, Germans and Scots-Irish settled the Shenandoah, thats who was here. Historic Structures Report The Historic Structures Report (HSR) for 1315 Duke Street, the Freedom House Museum, was formally presented by SmithGroup on October 28, 2021. Franklin sold the enslaved woman and her baby right after his wedding. Oh, no. They probably would have had to kill me, with my temperament. She laughs again. Featherstonhaugh, a geologist on a surveying tour for the federal government, described the slave trader as a raw man in nice clothes. No, I dont believe in revisionist history.. The two most ruthless domestic slave traders in America had a secret language for their business. Hite expressed regret that he had to charge interest if buyers insisted on using credit. On the lintel above the door you can see in faded paint its old sign, which reads, ___ CHANGE. The St. Louis Hotel was razed in 1916, but it was in the hotel that the Slave Trail ended in the most spectacular scenes. At the peak of their business, the two men were moving roughly 1,000 people a year, historians said. Before 1619, there was 1526: The mystery of the first enslaved Africans in what became the United States, Hunting down runaway slaves: The cruel ads of Andrew Jackson and the master class, Here are the facts about the enslavement of Africans in U.S. history. In the kitchen are mammy salt shakers, black lawn jockeys, Uncle Tom figurines and memorabilia of other irritating kindslithographs of pickaninnies eating watermelon, an African figure in a grass skirt, a poster for Country Style Corn Meal featuring a bandanna-wearing, 200-pound black woman. Boxley is 75. The remainder of the gang pushed on to Natchez. The house bursts with 19th-century chairs, rugs, settees, tables and pictures. After Isaac died, in 1846, they published the succession, an inventory of his belongings, he says. He knew how rare this was, so he decided to go back to his birthplace and look for his parents. I wish to inquire for my relatives, whom I left in Virginia about 25 years ago. But until recently, the Slave Trail was buried in memory. You going to treat me less than a dog? Armfield has at least one direct black descendant, Rodney Williams, who wrote about his heritage which he said he discovered through DNA testing in an essay included in Slaverys Descendants, published in May. But people who arrived by ship did. A message from a woman who had been snatched from her mother when she was a girl might reach hundreds of thousands. He lives alone in a five-room cottage in a black section of town, away from the camera-ready center of Natchez. My mothers name was Matilda; she lived near Wilton, Va., and belonged to a Mr. Percifield. I dont feel anything per se, she says, benignly. We had never done a dedicated exhibition on the slave trade, on slavery. She pulls out an October 1824 newspaper ad, placed by Isaac Hite, master of Belle Grove (and brother-in-law to President Madison). Golden Plains (Plantation : Mississippi) He shakes his head. Edward Ball is the author of five books of nonfiction and a lecturer in English at Yale University. And beneath the dome, with sunlight shafting down through windows in the apse, both auction stands did business simultaneously, in French and in English. Perhaps in an hour I may be on the river.. But the historian Heather Williams has unearthed a handful of reunions. Year after year the notices spreadhundreds, and then thousands. The people are made in part of the worst portion of the human race, he wrote. In Gallatin, I drive out to look at the old Franklin estate. And in Gallatin there is a church named after one of the Key family preachers. They didnt buy slaves in order to free them, but to make money.. Waller planned to sell all of them. It is a refrain among Southern whites who remain emotionally attached to the plantation daysthat one in 1,000 slaveholders who were black vindicates in some fashion 999 who were not. The Civil War interrupted the fortunes of the southern plantation owners and the cottages acquired by them were taken back by John Armfield. My purchasertold me that we must set out that very day for the South, he wrote. He wore my old Virginia cloth coat and pantaloons on his march, as he told his wife, Sarah Garlandthe daughter of a congressman and a granddaughter of Patrick Henry, the orator and patriot. She had seen him last when he was 8, and did not recognize him. It meant compliant, gentle and not broken by overwork. Yet today, almost no one knows their names. Along the way, the coffle met other slave gangs, construction crews rebuilding the Wagon Road, widening it to 22 feet and putting down gravel. Call me Ser Boxley, he says. The three sisters, Sarah Ann, Louisa and Lucy, also wanted to be sold together, which was not likely to happen, and they knew it. Born in 1797 in Guilford County, North Carolina, Armfield was coming off a brief stint running a mercantile business and, unsure of what to do next, he may have turned to the slave trade at Franklin's suggestion. It never occurs to them to think slavery might be bad: Slavery is what made their society work, it made them rich, it was a given that that was what black people were for, Rothman said. What was it like to be in the room with Isaac Franklin? For reasons unknown, Franklin did not send Key through the burning gates of the Slave Trail, but made him stay in Tennessee. We were handcuffed in pairs, with iron staples and bolts, recalled Charles Ball, who marched in several coffles before he escaped from slavery. You know, I have been around blacks all my life. I never heard of any mistreatment. Starting in Nashville I drive down the parkway. I take the old route to Knoxville, but then get onto the freeway, Interstate 40. By August, Armfield had more than 300 ready for the march. I have not seen him for ten years. On June 24, 1865, two months after the truce at Appomattox, in a Philadelphia newspaper called theChristian Recorder, she posted this: Information Wanted. He does not make small talk. It is an easy chat between strangers, until I bring up the slave days. Bradley Beal hits season high as Wizards fight to the finish in Atlanta, For Ovechkin in winter, a deadline sell-off makes sense this spring, Commanders cut Carson Wentz and Bobby McCain, clearing cap space, is used to host events including Methodist retreats. Commission merchants--Southern States--History--19th century. John Armfield (1797-1871) was an American slave trader. The fancy trade meant women sold as forcible sex partners. He was born in 1812 in Virginia. How does a person inside the family measure the inheritance of slave trading? You know, we carried on. The first thing that meets the eye in Thomsons house is a large portrait of Isaac Franklin. His slave pen appears on old maps, labeled negro mart.. The auction advertisements at the end of the Slave Trail always said, Virginia and Maryland Negroes.. His brothers never got back into the slave trade, but Isaac really decides this is going to be his game: Hes good at it, he likes it, he can make money at it, he sticks with it, Rothman said. For example, she persuaded the city to fund a tourist walk about slavery, a kind of mirror image of the Freedom Trail in Boston. In NC by 1760 - aound then came to NC with son William (oldest ), and 20 other men exploring. Here the mountains thicken into the Appalachian South of deep hollows and secret hills. As she talks and points out objects, I notice something I had never seen during many visits to this archive: black people. In the old days, there were few black people here, a lot of Quakers and the beginning of an antislavery movement. Franklin divided his retirement between a large mansion he built in Tennessee and several Louisiana plantations he acquired over the course of his career. He was a minister. Many people had scars from whipping. Explore genealogy for John Armfield born abt. Isaac Franklin put a building right where that muffler shop issee the peach-colored shed, across the street? It was March 13, 1848. But during the 50 years coffles were sent on the Slave Trail, the road most taken was the Natchez Trace. Cookie Settings, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, Illustrated map by Laszlo Kubinyi. Pretense and bluster rub shoulders with the plain and dejected. He married Margaret Dunlap about 1784, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States. I think Franklin was a cruel individual, but he was human. But what it says is wrong. This was dangerous. Frederick County Visitor Center. The turnpike ran farther west40 miles to Winchester, and then to the brow of the Blue Ridge Mountains. And there are many children on the list alone. You have this understanding that children were involved. They give the impression of perfect manners. We werent there. Are we accountable? Most slave traders at that time were considered common and uncouth, with no social graces. Slave trading was a game. The men, Isaac Franklin and John Armfield, were daring pirates or one-eyed men, a euphemism for their penises. They are each others closest friends and thats rooted in their working relationship, Rothman said. Sarah & child $800Henry $800. Outside universities and museums, the story of the Slave Trail lives in shards, broken and scattered. When they reached Nashville, they would be halfway. During the 50 years of the Slave Trail, perhaps half a million people born in the United States were sold in New Orleans, more than all the Africans brought to the country during two centuries of the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. They were in debt. As for Sarah and Indian, they had been taken from Sarahs husband and her mother. We are only accountable if it is repeated.. A sofa and chair that belonged to Isaac Franklins parents. The brig held 201 captives, with 149 sent by John Armfield sharing the misfortune of being on board with 5 people shipped by tavernkeeper Eli Legg to a trader named James Diggs, and 47 shipped. In Raymond, thanks to Thomas Dabney, Waller had gotten in touch with a slave seller named James Ware, a 42-year-old with Virginia roots. Two phone calls later, one of the living Franklins answers. But Sarah seems happy.. No, thats not true, says Erin Greenwald, a curator at the Historic New Orleans Collection. The company's agents sent people down to Franklin & Armfield's slavepens (another word that has disappeared) in Alexandria, just nine miles south of the U.S. Capitol: seamstresses, nurses,. Although the Armfield gang vanishes from the record, it is possible to follow in detail a coffle of people on the journey from Tennessee to New Orleans, thanks to William Wallers letters. When Franklin wed a rich socialite in 1839, he had been raping the same enslaved woman for about five years and had fathered a child with her, Rothman said. Shoes with crepe soles. They were once Americas cruelest, richest slave traders. Near a school playground in the middle of Raymond, I find the Dabney family graveyard, surrounded by an iron fence. The pictures are beautiful. You feel something here? Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life and death 4 See also 5 References I make a first estimate: zero. Actually, Uncle Isaac sent her off because he didnt want her around after he married.. After the women came the big wagonssix or seven in all. Double Oaks is a significant historic property, honored by placement on the National Register in 1985. Both institutions broke attendance records. On the block was one of the most beautiful young women I ever saw. Thomson emphasizes these last sentences. Franklin & Armfields marches began in the late summer, sometimes the fall, and they took two to four months. The abolitionist, knowing full well Armfields profession, nonetheless wrote: He is a man of fine personal appearance, and of engaging and graceful manners.. Randolph once wrote a friend to complain that the road was thronged with droves of these wretches & the human carcass-butchers, who drive them on the hoof to market. Comparing Virginia to a stop on the West African slave trade, Randolph sighed, One might almost fancy oneself on the road to Calabar.. And here, someone close to the memory of it says much the same. But in the 2000s, a developer began building a golf course on the fields where the colts ran. In 1834, Armfield sat on his horse in front of the procession, armed with a gun and a whip. And it really is a trace, the faint line of what used to be a wagon road. After 40 miles, the Little River Turnpike met the town of Aldie and became the Aldie and Ashbys Gap Turnpike, a toll road. When the brothers were growing up in Gallatin, James Franklin, eight years older than Isaac, took his sibling under his wing. It reads, in uppercase Helvetica, STAND UP HELP SAVE FORKS OF THE ROAD SLAVE MARKET SITES NATCHEZ MS. He often holds the sign while standing next to the patch of grass that is the only visible remnant of Forks of the Road. I pull in at various towns and ask around. After a few days Glenn turned up in Roxboro. Thats good. Not long ago I was reading some old letters at the library of the University of North Carolina, doing a little unearthing of my own. Other white men, similarly armed, were arrayed behind him. It was typical on the Slave Trail: People like Waller marched a coffle and sold one or two people along the way to pay the travel bills. The black churches picked it up. In May 1765 the caravan reached the various destinations of these Pennsylvania travelers. Slaves were routinely insuredplenty of companies did that sort of business, with policies guarding against damage. But collecting on such damage would be inconvenient. I do not approve of revisionist historians. This is Forks of the Road, the Y-shaped junction formed by St. Catherine Street and Old Courthouse Road, where Isaac Franklin presided. And there, in an accident hardly repeated by any of the million on the Slave Trail of Tears, he found his mother. Palladian manse, Empire franais, Tudor grand, and a form that might be called Tuscan bland. The two men launched the slave trading firm Franklin & Armfield and moved into the Alexandria townhouse today a museum in 1828. By 1835 this place was abuzz with long-distance traders. James Ware, Wallers broker, was having no luck selling the truncated coffle in Mississippi. And you see a lot of records in which there are an unusual number of 10-year-olds alone. During the move to the Deep South, many slaves found themselves on steamboats winding down the Mississippi to New Orleans. Terms of Use History, too, has largely let them off scot-free, Schermerhorn said. With that signal from Natchez, Armfield began vacuuming up people from the Virginia countryside. McQuinn was raised in Richmond, the capital of Virginia and the former capital of the Confederacya city crowded with monuments to the Old South. He was a strict Quaker and a school teacher by profession. It sat under a piece of glass and measured about 2 by 4 feet. My ancestor James was dabbling in some slave dealing on these tripssmall amount, nothing big. A lot of black people, she said, do not want to know about their ancestry. Part of Virginias section of that highway is known as the Lee-Jackson Highway, a love note to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the two Confederate generals. They ran to family, friends, or across state lines to freedom. People sang. Overland coffles would have used the road that molders off in the trees. Nearly enclosed by green curtains of limbs, it feels like a tunnel. Genealogy for John Franklin Layfayette Armfield (1858 - 1910) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Few profited more than the two Virginia slave traders. Kenneth Thomson opens the door to his house, which is clapboard and painted a pretty cottage yellowquaint, not grand. 1730) John. Men and boys sold, on average, for about $700. I am drafted by the inactivity of others to do history work, he tells me. In Virginia, the coffles marched from town to town. We had a maid, and we had a yard man. So Isaac had at least one black child, but this daughter of his left the state of Tennessee, and nobody knows what happened to her. But you dont know who the old ones are. The surveyor talked to him for a few hours and saw him as sordid, illiterate and vulgar. Armfield, it seems, had overpowering bad breath, because he loved raw onions. Spindly pine and oaks away off the roadbed, a third-growth woods. It is a fact that the ones over here are far ahead of the ones over there in Africa. He was so smooth he managed to impress even a New England abolitionist who visited Alexandria in the 1830s. Cobwebs to the face, bugs buzzing, overhanging branches to duck. They were guarding 200 men and boys lined up in twos, their wrists handcuffed together, a chain running the length of 100 pairs of hands. 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