This is a list of American slave traders working in Georgia and Florida from 1776 until 1865.

The importation of slaves from overseas was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed locally afterwards, including through the port of Savannah, Georgia (until 1798). Especially in the 1790s, slavers sailing out of Rhode Island would go directly to Africa and trade rum for captives and then sell them in either Cuba or Georgia, wherever the prices were better that season.

It was technically illegal to import slaves into Georgia from other states from 1788 until the law was repealed in 1856, but there was no law prohibiting the sale of slaves just across the border in the lands of the Cherokee Nation in what became the northwest quadrant of the state after Indian Removal, or across the Savannah River in Hamburg, South Carolina, maybe across the Chattahoochee River from Columbus in Alabama, or perhaps in Tallahassee in the Florida Territory.

Regarding Florida, in 1935 Dorothy Dodd reported on an early 19th-century court case involving an illegal slave ship and noted in her account that slave-traffick records for Florida are thin if not non-existent but Frederic Bancroft in Slave-Trading in the Old South stated that "Florida, especially in the earlier years, bred very few slaves and was almost entirely a slave-importing state. Although Bancroft is concerned primarily with the domestic slave trade, the factors that made Florida a good market for negroes bred in the Old South probably created a certain tolerance of the importation of negroes from beyond the seas."

W. E. Archer J. B. Allgood, Macon Austin, Georgia and Virginia A. K. Ayer, Columbus, Ga. Thomas Bagby, Macon, Ga. William K. Bagby, Atlanta, Ga. Robert Beasley, Macon, Ga. Bebee, Atlanta, Ga."Murder at Atlanta Georgia" Newspapers.com, Independent American, September 24, 1856, https://www.newspapers.com/article/independent-american-murder-at-atlanta-g/143865375/ Blount & Dawson, Savannah Alexander Bryan, Savannah Joseph Bryan, Savannah Busster, Georgia Redmond Bunn, Macon, Ga. Curtiss Carroll, Georgia Clark & Grubb, Atlanta Robert M. Clarke, Atlanta, Ga.Pre-Printed Receipt for a Slave Girl. (1862-12-23). Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library; 13; 30. https://jstor.org/stable/community.21813273 Amaziah Cobb, Georgia Charles Collins, Macon Joseph M. Cooper, Macon, Ga. W. S. Cothron, Floyd, Ga. Crawford, Frazer & Co., Atlanta, Ga., principals Robert Crawford, Addison D. Frazer, and Thomas Lafayette Frazer James Dean (or Deane), Macon Theophile DeMello, Pensacola, East Florida Milledge Durham and William Brightwell, Georgia Fields & Gresham, Atlanta, Ga. Theophilus Freeman, Georgia, Virginia, and New Orleans L. Graves George Griffin, Georgia S. H. Griffin, Atlanta Henry C. Halcomb, Atlanta, Ga. George Harris, Georgia Charles S. Harrison, Columbus, Ga. W. H. Henderson, Atlanta, Ga. W. C. Hewitt, Macon, Ga. L. Hull, Augusta Inman, Cole & Co., Atlanta, Ga. George W. Jones, Virginia and Georgia Jones & Robinson, Georgia John Jossey, Macon Jerrome, Danbury, Ga. Zephaniah Kingsley, Florida Jesse Kirby and John Kirby, Virginia and Georgia Charles A. L. Lamar Lowe & Simmons, Columbus, Ga. McRiley, Georgia Meinhard brothers, Savannah Miller and Waterman, Macon John S. Montmollin, Savannah Dick Mulhundro, Virginia and Georgia Myers & Thomas, Columbus, Ga. Thomas Napier, Macon, Ga. Jack Nickols, Georgia and Alabama George Nixon, Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama G. H. Noel, Macon, Ga. James G. Noel, Macon, Ga. Joe Norris, Georgia (?) Nowell, Macon Nowland, Virginia and Georgia A. J. Orr and D. W. Orr, Macon, Ga. Edward A. Parker, Macon, Ga. W. R. Phillips, Macon, Ga. Rafe Phillips, Macon George I. Pitts, Columbus, Ga. Ponder brothers (Ephraim G. Ponder, James Ponder, John G. Ponder, William G. Ponder), Tallahassee, Fla. and Atlanta and Thomas County, Ga. Annie Poore, Georgia Zachariah A. Rice, Atlanta, Ga. Robinson, South Carolina and Georgia John Robinson, Georgia E. H. Simmons, Virginia and Georgia Shadrack F. Slatter B. D. Smith, Atlanta, Ga. Smith & Co., Macon Charles F. Stubbs, Macon, Ga. Henry Teuker, Virginia and Georgia John Thornton, South Carolina and Dalton, Ga. N. C. Trowbridge, Augusta, Ga. & Hamburg, S.C. Wadkins, Virginia and Georgia Mat Warner, Virginia and Georgia Robert Watts, Savannah William Watkins, Atlanta, Ga. Weatherby, Augusta, Ga. Winston & Dixon, Georgia William Wright, Savannah

See also History of slavery in Georgia Amelia Island Florida Patriot War Seminole Wars List of Alabama slave traders List of District of Columbia 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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