{"id":1187,"date":"2010-12-14T11:37:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T16:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2011-03-16T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T03:58:00","slug":"18xx-franklin-and-armfield-slave-dealers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/12\/14\/18xx-franklin-and-armfield-slave-dealers\/","title":{"rendered":"1850 (Compromising for Union) Franklin & Armfield"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Franklin and Armfield Slave Dealers (House Divided)<\/p><\/div>\n

Sources<\/strong>
\nThe Virginia African American Heritage Program has a short essay<\/a> about the Franklin and Armfield office on their website. In addition, Edward E. Baptist uses Isaac Franklin and John Armfield as an example in his article “”Cuffy,” “Fancy Maids,” and “One-Eyed Men”: Rape, Commodification, and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States,” American Historical Review<\/em> (2001). Robert H. Gudmestad also discuses the two slave dealers in A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade<\/a><\/em> (2003).<\/p>\n

Places to Visit<\/strong>
\nFranklin and Armfield’s office became a \u00a0National Historic Landmark<\/a> in 1978 and is now home to the Freedom House Museum<\/a>. The museum opened in 2008 and is located in Alexandria, Virginia at 1315 Duke Street. You can also find a historical marker<\/a> about Franklin and Armfield outside the museum. In addition, the Bruin Slave Jail<\/a> is located several blocks away at 1707 Duke Street. In 1854 Harriet Beecher Stowe explained in The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin<\/a><\/em> that she used information about the jail to help write Uncle Tom’s Cabin<\/em>. The Edmondson sisters<\/a> were one of many slaves who were imprisoned at this jail. In addition, you will find a\u00a0statue<\/a> of the two sisters at Edmonson Plaza (1701 Duke Street). The statute was unveiled in June 2010 and serves\u00a0as a memorial to those suffered while in the jail. You can learn more about the Bruin Slave Jail from a short overview<\/a> on the Alexandria Black History Museum’s website.\u00a0Also see this short essay<\/a> from the Virginia African American Heritage Program. Visitors should note that this building is not open to the public.<\/p>\n

Images<\/strong>
\nThe Franklin and Armfield’s Slave Prison image<\/a> is a detail from a broadside<\/a> available at the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sources The Virginia African American Heritage Program has a short essay about the Franklin and Armfield office on their website. In addition, Edward E. Baptist uses Isaac Franklin and John Armfield as an example in his article “”Cuffy,” “Fancy Maids,” and “One-Eyed Men”: Rape, Commodification, and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States,” American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8652,3973],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compromising-for-union","category-grave-crisis-1801-1861","tag-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}