Isaac Franklin
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Isaac Franklin was an American slave trader and plantation owner. Born to wealthy planters in what would become Sumner County, Tennessee, he assisted his brothers in trading slaves and agricultural su
1852 depiction of John Coffee and the Tennessee militia attacking the Creek
Slave ship entering port in Alexandria, Virginia
The former Franklin & Armfield headquarters, as seen in the late 1860s
Port of New Orleans, 1841
Coffle
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A coffle, sometimes called a platoon or a drove, was a group of enslaved people chained together and marched from one place to another by owners or slave traders. These troupes, sometimes called shipp
Isaac Franklin
…militia during the War of 1812. He returned to slave trading soon after the war, buying enslaved people in Virginia and Maryland, before marching them in coffles to sale at Natchez, Mississippi. He introduced John Armfield to the slave trade, and with him founded the Franklin & Armfield partnership in 1828, which…
Coffle gang