Rice C. Ballard
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Rice Carter Ballard was a 19th-century American slave trader, plantation owner, and cotton merchant. His slave trading partners were Isaac Franklin and John Armfield. After leaving the slave-trading b
Franklin & Ballard trafficked Peter to Mississippi in the fall of 1835
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
Rice C. Ballard
…Ballard (c. 1798 – August 31, 1860) was a 19th-century American slave trader, plantation owner, and cotton merchant. His slave trading partners were Isaac Franklin and John Armfield. After leaving the slave-trading business, Ballard invested his profits in land and slaves. Together Ballard and his investment partner…
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