Jilson Dove

Jilson Dove
"For Sale" Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express, District of Columbia, August 4, 1834
Born	c. 1785 Virginia, U.S.
Died	1853 Washington, D.C.
Occupation(s)	Police officer, slave trader, restauranteur

Jilson Dove (c. 1785 – June 14, 1853) was a resident of Washington, D.C. in the United States. He worked at a number of occupations including federal police officer guarding Native American delegations visiting the city, municipal constable, fishmonger, restauranteur, real estate agent, and slave trader. In the 1830s he caught the attention of abolitionists, in part due to his work as a local slave patroller. Dove would probably have been considered a slave-trading agent, meaning a second-tier trader who primarily concentrated on local, small-scale buying for resale to the larger interstate slave dealers.