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HISTORICAL ANNOTATION 661

1849; Baltimore Sun, 19 June 1877; Quarles, Frederick Douglass, 342-43; Tilghman,
Talbot County, 1:395; Preston, "Aaron Anthony," 5; Roberts, "Visitation of Western
Talbot," 235-45.
36.11 Aunt Esther] Hester Bailey, the sister of Douglass's mother.
36.13-14 He owned about thirty slaves] Aaron Anthony owned precisely thirty
slaves at the time of his death in 1826. Preston, Young Frederick Douglass, 27.
36.16 seven or eight hundred dollars] Douglass undoubtedly inflated the estimates
of Aaron Anthony's profits from selling slaves in the 1820s. Prices in the
Chesapeake Bay region in that decade varied greatly depending on the age, gender,
and physical condition of the individual slave, but typical prices averaged closer to
$150. Slave traders bought at low prices in the Upper South and often made profits of
one-third to one-half by selling those slaves in the southwestern Cotton Belt. Robert
H. Gudmestad, A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave
Trade ( Baton Rouge, La., 2003), 8, 19-21; Collins, Domestic Slave Trade, 28-29;
Alrutheus A. Taylor, "The Movement of Negroes from the East to the Gulf States
from 1830-1850," JNH, 8:367-83 (October 1923).
36.20 Daniel Lloyd] Daniel Lloyd (1811-?) was the sixth child and youngest son
of Edward Lloyd V. Daniel became a farmer and increased his wealth steadily,
expanding the number of slaves he owned from eighteen to thirty-six between 1840
and 1850. By the latter year, he possessed real estate valued at $25,000. After the
death of his father, Lloyd resided at the nearby Wye Heights Plantation, earlier built
for Edward Lloyd VI and his wife. Daniel's son, Henry, was Maryland's governor in
the 1880s. 1840 U.S. Census, Maryland, Talbot County, 59; 1850 U.S. Census,
Maryland, Talbot County, 11a (free schedule), 14 (slave schedule); Preston, Young
Frederick Douglass, 54-55, 61, 81, 221; Tilghman, Talbot County, 1:207, 212.
36.27 Edward] Born in the Annapolis home of his maternal grandparents,
Edward Lloyd VI (1798-1861) was the oldest child and principal heir of his father's
great wealth . Educated at the Wye House plantation by tutors. the younger Lloyd
received charge of a nearby plantation, where his father built him the beautiful Wye
Heights mansion upon his marriage in 1824 to Alicia McBlair, daughter of a Baltimore
merchant. She died prematurely in 1838 after bearing five children. After inheriting
the bulk of his father's land holdings, Lloyd successfully shifted from tobacco to grain
farming and weathered the agricultural depression that struck most of the Eastern
Shore in the 1840s and 1850s. Lloyd also purchased cotton-growing land in
Mississippi in 1837 and later added more in Arkansas and Louisiana. He transferred
some of his swelling slave population to those new plantations. Though reputedly a
stern disciplinarian, he did try to avoid separating families during these relocations
and when sales occurred. A lifelong Democrat, Lloyd served as a delegate to the
Maryland constitutional convention of 1850 and as a state senator (1851-52). 1850
U.S. Census, Maryland, Talbot County, 6-10 (slave schedule); Tilghman, Talbot
County, 1:210-21; Preston, Young Frederick Douglass, 42-43, 44-45, 70, 192; J.
Donnell Tilghman, "Wye House," MdHM, 48:89-108 (June 1953).