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Slave Merchant Austin Woolfolk Advertisement
Baltimore, April 24, 1832
300 Negroes Wanted.
I wish to purchase them from the age of 13 to 25 years. Persons having such to sell shall have CASH, and the Highest Prices, by applying to the subscriber, Pratt street, Baltimore, near the intersection of the Railroad with the Washington City Road. Liberal commissions will be paid to those who will aid in purchasing for the subscriber.
Austin Woolfolk.
Baltimore, Ap 24.
Source: Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.), Wednesday, 22 August 1832.
Editor's Links: More information on Austin Woolfolk's slave prison may be found by clicking here.
Additional information on Woolfolk's connections to the slave market in the deep south may be found here.
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