This is a list of slave traders working in Missouri and Arkansas from settlement until 1865. The slave trade in Arkansas was comparatively small and developed relatively "late" in the antebellum era, such that "Like most areas of the state, neither Pope nor Conway County had an organized slave market. No existing county or court records, letters, or other documents mention slave dealers or firms routinely in the area, though small traveling dealers may have passed through western Arkansas, leaving no identifiable traces of their activities."
Jim Adams, Missouri and New Orleans Atkinson & Richardson, Tennessee, Kentucky, and St. Louis, Mo. Reuben Bartlett, St. Louis, Mo. and Nashville Henry Beck, St. Louis Birch & Keary, St. Louis, Mo. William T. Bridgford, St. Louis Thomas Brindley, St. Louis Brown & Taylor, Missouri and Vicksburg, Miss. David Clayton, St. Louis J. H. Darneal, Independence, Mo. George P. Dorris, Platte County, Mo. and Louisiana Jim Elerson, Missouri and Arkansas John Farley, St. Louis Thomas Fawcett J. D. Fitzgerald, Little Rock Patrick Foley, St. Louis Francis Frederick, St. Louis W. H. Gwin, St. Louis and Virginia Philip Hart, St. Louis Wash Henson, Dallas County John D. James, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, etc. Thomas Johnson, Cape Girardeau William Johnson, St. Louis, Mo. Curtis Kennedy, St. Louis Riley S. Kennedy, St. Louis Bernard M. Lynch, St. Louis"United States Census, 1850" https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZG-XB4 Entry for B M Lynch, 1850. - occupation: Negro trader, see also 1860 census Matlock, St. Louis and Texas John Mattingly, Louisville, Ky. and St. Louis, Mo. Alfred B. McAfee, St. Louis, Mo. McAfee & Blakey, St. Louis John McDonald, St. Louis James Maguire, St. Louis Henry A. Meyer, St. Louis Henry Mispal, St. Louis Thomas Norton, St. Louis Peter Norvey, St. Louis Herman Peter, St. Louis R. W. Sinclair, Audrain County Asa B. Smith, St. Louis M. Talbert, Liberty, Mo. Thomson, Little Rock Corbin Thompson, St. Louis, Mo. Patrick Tuthill Walker William Walker, St. Louis Samuel Wells, St. Louis John Wheelan, Rolla, Mo. White, Lexington, Mo. James White, Platte City (?) John R. White, St. Louis and New Orleans William White, St. Louis Wright, St. Joseph, Mo.
See also History of slavery in Missouri List of slave traders of the United States
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- Also digitized by UNC's Documenting the American South project.