Site of Campbell Slave Pen
Site where the business of slavery once took place.
While nothing remains to indicate what once transpired here, we pinpoint this location to memorialize the victims of enslavement in America.
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Bernard Moore Campbell and his brother Lewis operated a slave pen at this location, 26 Conway Street, from 1844 to 1848, when they purchased the more infamous Slatter jail at Howard and Pratt Streets.
