Matthew Garrison (slave trader)

Matthew Garrison
"Negroes wanted" newspaper ads published on July 4, 1844
Born	c. 1809 Virginia
Died	(1863-07-29)July 29, 1863 Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Other names	Mathew Garrison, Madison Garrison (Bibb)
Occupation	Slave trader

Matthew Garrison^[a] (c. 1809 – July 29, 1863) was an American interstate slave trader who bought in Kentucky and sold in Louisiana and Mississippi from the 1830s into the 1860s. He ran one of the major slave jails in antebellum Louisville, Kentucky. Garrison left his entire estate to two women of color and their combined six children by him.
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