List of Rhode Island slave traders

This is a list of slave traders based out of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, who typically ran slave ships between the coast of Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the southern states, predominantly before 1797–98.[1]

• Shearjashub Bourne[2]
• Nathaniel Briggs and Thomas Briggs[2]
• Brown brothers including John Brown and Samuel Brown[1]
• Champlins[2]
• Audley Clarke[3]
• Peleg Clarke, Newport[1][2]
• The D'Wolf brothers, Bristol[1]
• Caleb Gardner, Newport[1][2]
• George Gibbs[2]
• Jeremiah Ingraham[4]
• Ebenezer Jenckes[2]
• Aaron Lopez, Newport[1]
• Samuel Packard[4]
• Abijah Potter[2]
• Jacob Rodriguez Rivera[2]
• Amasa Smith[2]
• Cyprian Sterry[2] and Nathan Sterry, Providence[1]
• Constant Taber[2]
• John Topham[2]
• William Vernon, Newport[1]

See also

• List of slave traders of the United States
  • 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
  • List of Texas slave traders

References

1. Marques, Leonardo (2012). "Slave Trading in a New World: The Strategies of North American Slave Traders in the Age of Abolition". Journal of the Early Republic. 32 (2): 233–260. ISSN 0275-1275.
2. Donnan, Elizabeth (1930). "The New England Slave Trade after the Revolution". The New England Quarterly. 3 (2): 251–278. doi:10.2307/359697. ISSN 0028-4866.
3. Wax, Darold D. (1984). ""New Negroes Are Always in Demand": The Slave Trade in Eighteenth-Century Georgia". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 68 (2): 193–220. ISSN 0016-8297.
4. Hermann, Burkely (2021-07-25). ""A man of wealth": Samuel Packard, the Rhode Island slaver". Packed with Packards!. Retrieved 2025-01-17.