This is a list of slave traders active in Tennessee from settlement until 1865. John Anderson, Nashville Pat Anderson, Tennessee and Louisiana Atkinson & Richardson, Tennessee, Kentucky, and St. Louis Daniel Berry, Tennessee and Texas Blackwell & Martin Isaac L. Bolton, Memphis Wade H. Bolton, Memphis Washington H. Bolton, Memphis William L. Boyd Jr., Nashville Boyd, Whitworth, and Taylor, Nashville W. Bradford, Memphis Will Brooks, Virginia and Tennessee John Brown, Tennessee Edward Bush, Tennessee Stephen Cantrell, Nashville M. C. Cayce & Co. or M. C. Cayce & Son, Memphis John W. Chrisp, Memphis Benjamin W. S. Cabell, Knoxville Jason Chiborne & Co., Sweetwater Depot James Cook, Paris, Tennessee, and Mississippi William Cowan, Bedford County John Criddle, Virginia and Tennessee Clark Cummings, Clarksville, Tenn. A. J. Cunningham, Memphis Z. H. Curlin, Memphis Joseph W. "Joe" Dabbs, Nashville Dabbs & Porter, Nashville Samuel H. Davis, Nashville Anderson Delap, Memphis Nelson Delap, Memphis Norman Delap, Memphis Delap, Witherspoon & Fly, Memphis John A. Denie, Memphis Thomas Dickins, Memphis and St. Louis Richard Dillingham, alleged slave kidnapper (abolitionist?) in vicinity of Nashville Samuel W. Edmondson, Williamson County W. E. Eliot, Memphis Joseph Erwin, John Erwin, Abraham Wright, and Billings, and Joseph Thompson, possibly Samuel Spraggins, Tennessee and Louisiana Andrew Ewing, Nashville Alfred Flournoy, Tennessee and Louisiana Aaron H. Forrest, Memphis, and Vicksburg, Miss. Jeffrey E. Forrest, Memphis, and Vicksburg, Miss. Jesse A. Forrest, Memphis John N. Forrest, Memphis Nathan Bedford Forrest William H. Forrest, Memphis, and Vicksburg, Miss. S. and A. Fowlkes, Memphis David J. Gray, Williamson County Glover & Boyd, Nashville Goodbar, Tennessee and Montgomery, Ala. Henry Hall, Shelby Co., Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi Jonathan Harding, Sumner Co., Tennessee, and Natchez E. S. Hawkins, NashvilleE S Hawkins, 1860, 18 Cedar St, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, Slave-Dealer - Nashville, Tennessee, City Directory, 1860 - Page 188 G H Hitchings 72 Broad St Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Negro-Dealer - page 305 - Nashville, Tennessee, City Directory, 1860 Henry H. Haynes, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tenn. Peter Hickman, near Jonesboro, Tenn. Byrd Hill, Memphis and Mississippi Hill & Little, Memphis Hill & Powell, Memphis Hill, Weaver & Co., Memphis George W. Hitchings, Nashville and Sumner County J. M. Horton, Cleveland, Tenn. Andrew Jackson and John Hutchings, Nashville and Natchez Damascus G. James, Memphis David D. James, Nashville, Richmond, Va. and Natchez, Miss. John D. James, Nashville, Richmond, Va. and Natchez, Miss. Thomas G. James, Nashville, Richmond, Va. and Natchez, Miss. William G. James, Memphis James & Harrison, Nashville William Jenkins, Nashville Richard Johnson & Jesse Meek, Tennessee and Forks of the Road Alpha Kingsley, Nashville Latham & Farrell, Mouse Creek Depot (Niota) Latham & Howard, Mouse Creek Depot (Niota) T. D. Leonard, Clarksville Benjamin Little, Montgomery Little, Chauncey Little & William Little, Memphis and Shelbyville, Tenn. R. W. Lucas, Nashville Robert J. Lyles, Nashville Maddock, Tennessee Maddux and Dawson, Nashville Josiah Maples, Memphis William C. Mayfield, Pulaski Joseph Meek, Tennessee, Virginia and MississippiSlave dealer Joseph Meek describes high demand and rigors of market. (1835-09-27). Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library; 13; 48. https://jstor.org/stable/community.21813405 A. A. McLean, Nashville James Miller, Richmond, Va. and East Tennessee James McMillin, Tennessee and Kentucky N. A. McNairy, Nashville and Natchez James S. Moffett, Troy, Tenn. J. W. Morton, Nashville Neil & Wright, Sweetwater Depot Isaac Neville, Memphis George N. Noel, Memphis Petway, middle Tennessee and lower Mississippi valley Phelps & Thornhill, Rutherford County G. L. Pierce, Nashville Rees W. Porter, Giles County and Nashville Dr. Joseph Powell, Elizabethton William Ramsey, Nashville and Virginia John Rath, Smith Co., Tenn. Dr. Ray, Tennessee (?) and Mississippi Redman, Mississippi and Tennessee John Reed, Tennessee and Mississippi Robertson & Currey (Duncan Robertson and Robert Currey), Nashville W. S. Rogers, Virginia, North Carolina, and Knoxville, Tenn. David Saffarans & Son (possibly, per Chase Mooney) Thomas G. Saunders, Nashville John Staples, Memphis L. E. Temple, Nashville Thompson, near Nashville, Tennessee Tom Tucker, Knoxville, Tenn. Vanhook, Tennessee A. Wallace, Memphis John D. Ware, Memphis and Brownsville Warwick, Nashville Webb, Nashville Webb, Merrill & Co., Nashville Frank Whiterspoon, Missouri and Tennessee John Wilkerson, Memphis Alexander Williams, Nashville Henry Williams, Nashville Williams & Glover, Nashville E. L. Willie, Memphis Jerry Wilson, Tennessee William Witherspoon, Memphis

See also List of slave traders of the United States History of slavery in Tennessee List of Alabama slave traders List of District of Columbia slave traders List of Georgia and Florida slave traders List of Kentucky slave traders List of Maryland and Delaware slave traders List of Missouri slave traders Family separation in American slavery List of largest slave sales in the United States Movement to reopen the transatlantic slave trade Kidnapping into slavery in the United States Bibliography of the slave trade in the United States Slave markets and slave jails in the United States

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