C. M. Rutherford
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Calvin Morgan Rutherford, generally known as C. M. Rutherford, was a 19th-century American interstate slave trader. Rutherford had a wide geographic reach, trading nationwide from the Old Dominion of
Baton Rouge Daily Gazette and Comet, Dec. 16, 1853
"I have just received for sale a very likely lot of Virginia NEGROES."
Index card for a New Orleans death record, 1854
Slave dealers listed in the 1861 directory of New Orleans, Louisiana, including Rutherford, Walter L. Campbell, R. H. Elam, Poindexter & Little, and J. M. Wilson
Jonathan M. Wilson
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Jonathan Means Wilson, usually advertising as J. M. Wilson, was a 19th-century slave trader of the United States who trafficked people from the Upper South to the Lower South as part of the interstate
C. M. Rutherford
…Slave dealers listed in the 1861 directory of New Orleans, Louisiana, including Rutherford, Walter L. Campbell, R. H. Elam, Poindexter & Little, and J. M. Wilson After the American Civil War, Rutherford was listed in the 1866 New Orleans city directory as a resident living at the corner of Water and Ninth. In…
Advertisement from J.M. Wilson for sale of Maryland and Virginia Negroes
Runaway slave ad, likely placed by Hindes (Baltimore Sun, January 6, 1863)
Traders including Shadrack F. Slatter, Walter L. Campbell, Joseph Bruin, and J. M. Wilson used this site at Esplanade and Chartres (previously Moreau) in New Orleans at various times