In Roanoke, at a tourist information outlet called Virginias Blue Ridge. Then she came to me and said, Aint you my child? Glenn recalled. Ten thousand dollars was a considerable sum in 1834the equivalent of nearly $300,000 today. The same reporter described a noble-looking woman with a bright-eyed seven-year-old. When mother and boy stepped onto the platform, however, no bids came for them, and the auctioneer decided on the spur of the moment to put the boy on sale separately. As she talks and points out objects, I notice something I had never seen during many visits to this archive: black people. On holidays it is something, we have to rent a community center. I wouldnt have made it too well in slavery days, because I am the kind of person who just could not imagine you would treat me the way they treated people. Today the Great Wagon Road, or Valley Turnpike, is known as U.S. Route 11, a two-lane that runs between soft and misty mountains, with pretty byways. Thats good. The turnpike ran farther west40 miles to Winchester, and then to the brow of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He was not describing the Forks, a mile east of the nice part of town. It is 8 p.m., and the sun is failing. I shall proceed to sell sixty slaves, of various ages, in families, Hite said. Franklin worked with a few partners over the years but connected with his longest-lasting collaborator the man who became his closest friend, confidant and nephew by marriage in the early 1820s. No. Watch out for my Jim Crow kitchen, he says from the other room. They were guarding 200 men and boys lined up in twos, their wrists handcuffed together, a chain running the length of 100 pairs of hands. The men made it across. Thats the type of name I should have had if traditional African cultures had stayed intact, compared to Clifton Boxley, which is the plantation name, or slave name, he says. He called it Fairvue. It ran to 900 pages. But I recognize the melody, and let the song pass. While their business strategy was not especially innovative, it was conducted on a scale bigger and better than anyone else, Rothman said. John Armfield: Muttenz Descendants, Inc. Muttenz Descendants, Inc. Muttenz Descendants, Inc.is a not-for-profit tax-exempt corporation portraying and honoring the frontier heritage of Muttenz descendants and their neighbors. He tells the back story. Visitation will be held on Friday, March 3rd 2023 from 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM at the Royer Funeral Home (100 Royer Ln, Grain Valley, MO 64029). I am now waiting for a safe boat to set out for you, he wrote. Waller was 58, not young but still fit. Here, too, in the St. Louis Hotels beautiful vaulted room, families at the end of the Slave Trail were divided. You know, I have been around blacks all my life. Franklin, meanwhile, stayed mostly in Natchez, Miss., and was responsible for selling their human cargo to plantations in the Deep South. He wore my old Virginia cloth coat and pantaloons on his march, as he told his wife, Sarah Garlandthe daughter of a congressman and a granddaughter of Patrick Henry, the orator and patriot. It would turn out to be four. Some whites went to the slave auctions for entertainment. She is a politician now, elected to the city council in the late 1990s and to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2009. You have Robert H. Elam operating in the site over there. I have studied Charles Ball and found no family link to him. He could write a letter.. The company's agents sent people down to Franklin & Armfield's slavepens (another word that has disappeared) in Alexandria, just nine miles south of the U.S. Capitol: seamstresses, nurses,. Armfield has at least one direct black descendant, Rodney Williams, who wrote about his heritage - which he said he discovered through DNA testing - in an essay included in "Slavery's. Isaac Franklin and John Armfield (1828-1837) were the first to use the property as a slave pen. Some carried small children. All the servants were black. We had a guy that doubled as a driver and supervised the warehouse. Born 50 miles that way, Radford for 20 years. Frederick County Visitor Center. After he died, in 1846, his body was shipped from Louisiana to Fairvue in a whiskey barrel. Through their company, commonly known as Franklin and. Your Privacy Rights They got into the domestic slave trade just as the cotton economy and American demand for enslaved labor exploded, and quit right before the United States sank into the financial panic of 1837. A typical display placed an 8-year-old girl on the left end of a line, and then ten people like stair steps up to the right end, ending with a 30-year-old woman, who might be the first girls mother. That comes to $140,000, or about $3.5 million today. So-called mulatresses., Isaac Franklin was all over this market. Its been six years since Rothman began his research, crisscrossing the country to scour old documents such as property transactions in Louisiana, court cases in Mississippi, ship manifests in Alexandria. The tan clapboard housefolding chairs and a hammock in the front yard, cinder blocks and planks for front stepsoverflows inside with books, LPs, folk art, old newspapers, knickknacks, clothes in piles and unidentifiable hoards of objects. A sudden, loud drone from every direction, the natural music of Mississippi. After Duck River, in Tennessee, came the Keg Springs Stand. You see the names. Armfield, meanwhile, purchased an old hotel in the Tennessee mountains and converted it to a luxury summer getaway for the wealthy. So it is likely they were force-marched from Albemarle County, Virginia, to Louisville, and then boarded a steamer downriver to here. She waves a hand toward the Mississippi levee two blocks away. In 1833, John Armfield shipped a gang of people to Natchez, where Isaac Franklin received them. Armfield may have been less extroverted, but he, too, drew accolades for his social graces. It was all he did for the rest of his professional life, right up until he retired. Part of the reason theyre successful is they work well together: Each understands the others strengths, they trust and respect each other., We cannot be forgetting: Twilight marchers in Alexandria evoke the pain of enslaved thousands. The path of I-40 west roughly matches a turnpike that once ran 200 miles across the Cumberland Plateau. Slave trading was a game. The men, Isaac Franklin and John Armfield, were daring pirates or one-eyed men, a euphemism for their penises. Few profited more than the two Virginia slave traders. Born in 1797 in Guilford County, North Carolina, Armfield was coming off a brief stint running a mercantile business and, unsure of what to do next, he may have turned to the slave trade at Franklin's suggestion. Gangs of slaves were welcome if they slept in the field, far from business. It would have been the easiest thing to do. Wallers testimony, to my knowledge, has never been examined in detail. On the whole, things werent that bad. They placed ads in local newspapers seeking enslaved people almost every single day they remained in business. The phrase sold down the river, for instance. A lot of black people, she said, do not want to know about their ancestry. It is the humanity of our ancestors denied that I am interested in. But he stood in the door, in front of my grandfather, and lit a match to the papers. One of her proudest accomplishments in politics, she says, has been to throw new light on an alternate history. These carried food, plus children too small to walk ten hours a day. Daniel is pleasant, happy to talk about his hardscrabble days. Families--Southern States. In my family, people looked after their slaves, he said. A plate of pokeweed yanked up from the field and put on the table is one way of saying a mess. Blair shifts metaphors. This story is a selection from the November issue of Smithsonian magazine. Boxley lets less than a second pass. I had a brother, Sam, and a sister, Annie, who were left with mother. They give the impression of perfect manners. I am drafted by the inactivity of others to do history work, he tells me. Slave traders would issue new clothes for people they had to sell, but they were usually cheaper. She is petite, talkative, knowledgeable and precise. A good lot for walking was a gang of enslaved men, women and children, possibly numbering in the hundreds, who could tolerate three months afoot in the summer heat. Bettie was sold to a man named Reed, and I was sold and carried to New Orleans and from there to Texas. Their plan was to leave a few slaves behind with Sarah as house servants and for William to march nearly all the rest to Natchez and New Orleans. Developing the exhibit, Greenwald and her team created a database of names of the enslaved who were shipped from the Eastern states to New Orleans. She lives 25 miles from Gallatin, in a pretty brick, ranch-style house with white shutters. You would get paid $3 for 100 pounds of picking cottonthat is, if you were lucky to find a farmer who would employ you.. Put them all together, we are like a big sports team. The remainder of the gang pushed on to Natchez. Armfield watched and smoked. A few people launch into stories about the brave Confederates. The man may be gone, but generations later, some of his people are still around. Human bondage began I dont know when, but early, thousands of years ago. My mother was sold from me: After slavery, the desperate search for loved ones in last seen ads. Daniels expression empties. We had never done a dedicated exhibition on the slave trade, on slavery. Waller reached Mississippi by that November. John's three married daughters had rem ained in Pennsylvania. That would be more than $440 million today.. And there, in an accident hardly repeated by any of the million on the Slave Trail of Tears, he found his mother. Today the road leaving town becomes U.S. Route 50, a big-shouldered highway. His path to the slave trade was less clear-cut than Franklins. Members of the Armfield family among the travelers were J ohn, his wife, and their five sons-William, John, Jr., Robert, Isaac an d Thomas and all their families. After an hour of this, the showing of the lively stock, the enslaved stood in rows on long overhanging porches. Take the ashes and get off my land., The intent was to keep that history buried, McQuinn says today. And that includes about Isaac Franklin. I wonder aloud. John Armfield (1797-1871) was an American slave trader. His slave pen appears on old maps, labeled negro mart.. It must be in the genes, because I have a brother who is a minister, and a cousin who is a minister, and another relative. It was like that. Can anyone inform me of the whereabouts of John Person, the son of Hannah Person, of Alexandria, Va., who belonged to Alexander Sancter? When Franklin and Armfield retired, they passed easily into elite white society, achieving respectable dotage without a murmur. Genealogy for John Franklin Layfayette Armfield (1858 - 1910) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. I had plenty of money for the trip, he said. The mother begged her new master to buy little Jimmie too, but he refused, and the child was dragged away. She was fancier than he. What was it like to be in the room with Isaac Franklin? Overland coffles would have used the road that molders off in the trees. It is possible, of course, that Isaac Franklin sold his daughter. He had six plantations and 650 slaves.. It was at the beginning of the 1800s. Armfield had no wish to continue without his longtime partner. For reasons unknown, Franklin did not send Key through the burning gates of the Slave Trail, but made him stay in Tennessee. I dont feel anything per se, she says, benignly. My direct ancestor is Isaacs brother James. Two phone calls later, one of the living Franklins answers. At the same time, that doesnt mean that he didnt have bad habits, Thomson clarifies. Trailer-park childhood. Thomson brings out an article that he wrote some years ago for the GallatinExaminer. He was the co-founder of Franklin & Armfield, "the largest slave trading firm" in the United States. You got the wrong person to ask about sparing your feelings, Boxley replies. Fairvue was a working plantation, but it was also an announcement that the boy from Gallatin had returned to his humble roots in majesty. Days and nights down the Valley Turnpike, the spine of the Blue Ridge, destination Tennessee, where Armfield would hand over his coffle and board a stagecoach back to Alexandria. They were probably younger, but nobody was checking.. The display was weirdly silent. Born in North Carolina, he worked as a stagecoach driver before meeting Isaac Franklin and joining him in the business of selling enslaved men, women, and children for profit. She was about sixteen, dressed in a cheap striped woolen gown, and bareheaded.. His humanity was not always visible, but it was there. Across the street was another set of buildings and dealers. Which means that Isaac Franklin was my great-great-great-great-uncle., It is an important gloss, as it turns out: You see, Thomson said, my forebear James Franklin was the family member who introduced Isaac Franklin to the slave business., Taking a seat in an armchair upholstered in wine-colored brocade, he picks up the story. Advertising Notice There was one place en route, however, with a small slave marketAberdeen, Mississippi. They record the names, heights, ages, sex and coloration as determined by the person looking at them. Several of Thomas Dabneys children lie beneath granite stones. And then they were goneout to plantations in northern Louisiana, or central Mississippi, or southern Alabama. There was also Mitchell, a boy of 10 or 11, and Foster, 20-ish and strong, his prize hand. In Louisiana the top prices could be had for a buck, a muscled man bound for the hell of the sugar fields. Randolph once wrote a friend to complain that the road was thronged with droves of these wretches & the human carcass-butchers, who drive them on the hoof to market. Comparing Virginia to a stop on the West African slave trade, Randolph sighed, One might almost fancy oneself on the road to Calabar.. There they were sold to new bosses and dispersed in a 300-mile radius to the sugar and cotton plantations. Through it all, both regularly raped the women they bought and sold and joked about it in letters, a shared habit that deepened their friendship. Boxley left Natchez in 1960, at age 20. Waller knew his family. This was dangerous. The site is empty but for the five markers, paid for by the City of Natchez. Multiply that by 200. They bought shoes for them, blankets for them, brought in doctors to treat them. So, floundering about in the wake of the sex scandal, Armfield decided he would just dabble in the slave trade, according to Rothman. Address me at Morales, Jackson Co., Texas.Mary Haynes.. He was a strict Quaker and a school teacher by profession. You cant judge those people by todays standardsyou cant judge anybody by our standards. Among the people who lived in these parts was John Randolph, a congressman and a cousin of Thomas Jefferson. You say it was 150 years ago? Golden Plains (Plantation : Mississippi) One half the circumference of the rotunda is occupied by the bar of the hotel, and the other half by entrances to the vaulted room. A thicket of McMansions follows, in every ersatz style. No buildings on that half-acre. The cut is about 12 feet wide, with shallow ditches on each side. His book was not much readit had a due-date notice from 50 years agobut in it Andrews described the scene as Armfield directed the loading for an enormous journey. Even while actively trading slaves, the two men enjoyed an excellent reputation and moved in top-tier social circles, according to Rothman. He is bearded white and gray, and half bald. He was born in 1812 in Virginia. Our mission is to offer gracious hospitality while providing opportunities for connecting with God & community. On June 24, 1865, two months after the truce at Appomattox, in a Philadelphia newspaper called theChristian Recorder, she posted this: Information Wanted. Franklin and Armfield each fathered at least one child with an enslaved woman, Rothman said. They were made to go, deported, you could say, having been sold. I stop at one of the oldest, Belle Grove. He had some of those. John Armfield, slave trader and businessman, descended from North Carolina Quakers who were Loyalists during the American Revolution. Actually, Uncle Isaac sent her off because he didnt want her around after he married.. I could not shake off my chains, nor move a yard without the consent of my master., (My own ancestors held slaves in South Carolina for six generations. Florence Hall Blair, born and raised in Nashville, is 73, a retired nurse. Before he married, Isaac had companions, some willing, some unwilling. The great fall in cotton has so alarmed the people that there is not the slightest prospect of our selling our negroes at almost any price, he wrote home. A clergyman who saw a march toward Shenandoah remembered that the gang members, having left their wives, children, or other near connections and never likely to meet them again in this world, sang to drown the suffering of mind they were brought into. Witnesses said Old Virginia Never Tire was one song all the coffles sang. He did it, but it is what it is. The paper lists peoples names, their color and place of origin. The man in the South who has done the most to call attention to the Slave Trail was born in Natchez in 1940. He is loath to spend yet another day probing the dark activities and darker minds of Franklin and Armfield. I think America continues to be uncomfortable talking about the original sin of slavery, McInnis said. Armfield and his gang of 300 had marched for a month and covered more than 600 miles. Franklin & Armfield put more people on the market than anyoneperhaps 25,000broke up the most families and made the most money. Theophilus Freeman, who sold Solomon Northup, ofTwelve Years a Slave, operated over there. Few, if any, American high school or college students ever learn about the duo. In 1839, at age 50, he married a woman named Adelicia Hayes, age 22, the daughter of a Nashville attorney. Their location was also prime, perched so they could collect enslaved people from plantations across Virginia and Maryland and sending them on forced marches in groups of several hundred known as coffles or on tightly packed ships along the Atlantic Coast to the Deep South. A painting of the mansion at Fairvue. When Armfield turned up with his gang in Gallatin, he seems to have handed the group not to Isaac Franklin, but to Franklins nephew James Franklin. His book, Slaves in the Family (1998) won the National Book Award and was a New York Times bestseller. Born about 1730 [location unknown] Son. Well, Germans and Scots-Irish settled the Shenandoah, thats who was here. But you dont know who the old ones are. But until recently, the Slave Trail was buried in memory. Explore genealogy for John Armfield born abt. You going to treat me less than a dog? Those kinds of stubborn myths they need demolition., Aaron Burr villain of Hamilton had a secret family of color, new research shows. The brig held 201 captives, with 149 sent by John Armfield sharing the misfortune of being on board with 5 people shipped by tavernkeeper Eli Legg to a trader named James Diggs, and 47 shipped. Later the same wagons hauled those who had collapsed and could not be roused with a whip. Kenneth Thomson brings out some daguerreotypes of the Franklins and others in his family tree. The people are made in part of the worst portion of the human race, he wrote. Buyers by the hundreds crammed the viewing rooms of dealers in Natchez and the auction halls of brokers in New Orleans. The bloodletting here has a kind of glamour. He said his own father knew the name of the people who had enslaved their family in Virginia, knew where they livedin the same house and on the same landin Hanover County, among the rumpled hills north of Richmond. | READ MORE. It meant compliant, gentle and not broken by overwork. Leave a sympathy message to the family on the memorial page of John Hawkins Jr. to pay them a last tribute. And it was really past time.. On April 1, Waller reached home. Relatives of President James Madison put up the stone mansion at Belle Grove during the 1790s, and it lives on as a fine house museum run by a historian, Kristen Laise. Every Sunday, preachers around the South looked out at congregations and read announcements from Lost Friends and columns like it. More than one preservationist had told me that the current owners of Fairvue are hostile to anyone who shows curiosity about the slave dealer who built their lovely home. These children were not 10. Elcho (Plantation : Madison Parish, La.) It took four months to assemble the big coffle, to use a once-common word that, like so much of the vocabulary of slavery, has been effaced from the language. It is plain that in this branch of the Franklin family, the past cannot be unremembered. A clean back was a rarity, and it raised the price. I am fighting for our enslaved ancestors. The floor is a marble mosaic. Thomson is sensitive to the suggestion that the family took benefit from the industrial-scale cruelty of Franklin & Armfield. The slave-trade site it mentions, Masperos Exchange, was diagonally across the street from the sandwich place.. One night in September 1834, a traveler stumbled into the Armfield coffles camp. Other white men, similarly armed, were arrayed behind him. Especially for travelers, the markets were a rival to the French Opera House and the Thtre dOrlans. During the black power years of the 1960s he renamed himself Ser Seshsh Ab Heter. Isaac Franklin, Armfields partner, kept house in Louisiana, but his thoughts were often in Tennessee. She points to a beautiful piece of silk printed with the sentence, Slaves must be cleared at the Customs House. Its a sign that probably hung in staterooms on steamships. A kind of check-your-luggage announcement. Looking for any information about the ancestors and descendents of John Armfield.I am descended through his daughter, Nancy Ann Armfield. Sarah & child $800Henry $800. We are not accountable for what happened then. Sometimes, as in Balls case, the chain ran through an iron neck collar. As for Sarah and Indian, they had been taken from Sarahs husband and her mother. Who was my mother, says Florence Blair. Wallers letters are imprecise on his route, and by 1847 there were a few roads from Tennessee into Mississippi. Uncle Isaac was different. In 1857 alone, the sale of people in Richmond amounted to $4 million, McInnis said. New Orleans, the biggest slave market in the country, had about 50 people-selling companies in the 1840s. Mystery solved, she says. And the auction setting of choice was a place called the St. Louis Hotel, Greenwald says, a block from here.. John Matthew Salilig (Matt Salilig / Facebook) Marcos said this following the arrest of at least 17 suspects behind the death of the 24-year-old student whose body was found in Imus, Cavite on Feb. 28, after one of the suspects disclosed the location. Across the street, five historical markers stand on a naked lawn. Americas forgotten migration the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South, Edward Ball; Photographs by Wayne Lawrence. The nicest families in the Shenandoah tipped people into the pipeline south. He knew how to be a gentleman. The coffles followed the same routethrough Kingston, Crab Orchard, Monterey, Cookeville, Gordonsville, Lebanon and, finally, Nashville. Should you purchase a good lot for walking I will bring them out by land this summer, Franklin had written. Starting in Nashville I drive down the parkway. Then, hed send the group on an arduous 1,000-mile march to slave markets in Natchez or New Orleans or hed stuff them into one of the companys three massive ships to make the same journey by water. In 1835, it was 4,723. Scholars of slavery are quite familiar with the firm of Franklin & Armfield, which Isaac Franklin and John Armfield established in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1828. Spindly pine and oaks away off the roadbed, a third-growth woods. They were turning out the new Valley Turnpike, a macadam surface with ditches at the sides. People do know, however, about Civil War battles. I sold your fancy girl Alice for $800, Franklin wrote to Rice Ballard, a partner then in Richmond. The way you transcend the hurt and pain is to face the situation, experience it and cleanse yourself, to allow the humanity of our ancestors and their suffering to wash through you and settle into your spirit.. They first came over here as indentured servants, as did the whites. A magnificent Greek Revival courthouse stands next to a one-room barbershop with a corrugated metal front. She was 18 at the time and just over five feet tall. But by the time Waller arrived, Franklin was gone. The original John Armfield, from whom all the Armfields of whom we know were descended, was born in the north of England in 1695. 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