| 词条 | Austin Woolfolk |
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| name = Austin Woolfolk | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1796 | birth_place = Georgia, U.S. | death_date = 1847 | death_place = Auburn, Alabama, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | alma mater = | employer = | occupation = Slave trader | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = }} Austin Woolfolk (1796—1847) was an American slave trader. He became notorious for selling Frederick Douglass's aunt, and for assaulting Benjamin Lundy after the latter had criticized him. Early lifeAustin Woolfolk was born in 1796 in the U.S. state of Georgia.[1] He moved to Baltimore in 1819.[1] CareerWoolfolk became a slave trader in Baltimore,[2] where he had an office on Pratt Street, with a pen where he kept his slaves.[1] Even though he advertised in newspapers, he moved his slaves at night to avoid attracting attention.[1] He became notorious for selling Frederick Douglass's aunt, and for assaulting Benjamin Lundy after the latter had criticized him.[1] Woolfolk was driven "out of business" by slave traders Isaac Franklin and John Armfield when they moved to Baltimore.[3] DeathWoolfolk died in 1847 in Auburn, Alabama.[4] References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite book|editor-last1=Finkelman|editor-first1=Paul|last1=Kerschen|first1=Lois|chapter=Woolfolk, Austin|pages=360–61|title=Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass "|date=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195167771|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195167771.001.0001/acref-9780195167771-e-0609?rskey=LkezM9&result=601|accessdate=November 3, 2017|doi=10.1093/acref/9780195167771.001.0001/acref-9780195167771-e-0609|doi-broken-date=2018-05-04}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Woolfolk, Austin}}{{US-bio-stub}}2. ^{{cite journal|last1=Calderhead|first1=William|title=The Role of the Professional Slave Trader in a Slave Economy: Austin Woolfolk, A Case Study|journal=Civil War History|date=September 1977|volume=23|issue=3|pages=195–211|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/419474/pdf|accessdate=November 3, 2017}} 3. ^{{cite journal|last1=Gudmestad|first1=Robert H.|title=The Troubled Legacy of Isaac Franklin: The Enterprise of Slave Trading|journal=Tennessee Historical Quarterly|date=Fall 2003|volume=62|issue=3|pages=193–217|jstor=42627764}} 4. ^{{cite news|title=DIED|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/118893354/?terms=%22Austin%2BWoolfolk%22|accessdate=November 3, 2017|work=The Tennessean|date=March 5, 1847|page=2|via=Newspapers.com|registration=yes}} 5 : 1796 births|1847 deaths|People from Georgia (U.S. state)|People from Baltimore|American slave traders |
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