John Armfield
Businessperson, Deceased Person
1797 – 1871
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Who was John Armfield?
John Armfield was an American slave trader. In 1828, he and his uncle Isaac Franklin formed the partnership of Armfield and Franklin to buy African-American slaves in the mid-Atlantic states and re-sell them in the newly opened territories of the deep south. They dissolved the partnership in 1835 and sold the business to one of their agents, George Kephart.
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- Born
- 1797
United States of America - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- North Carolina
- Tennessee
- Died
- 1871
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on July 23, 2013
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