George Kephart
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George Kephart (February 7, 1811August 26, 1888) was a 19th-century American slave trader, land owner, farmer, and philanthropist. A native of
Maryland, he was an agent of the interstate trading firm
Franklin & Armfield early in his career, and later occupied, owned, and finally leased out that company's infamous slave jail in
Alexandria (originally District of Columbia, after March 13, 1847, Alexandria, Virginia). In 1862,
Henry Wilson of Massachusetts mentioned Kephart by name in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate as one of the traders who had "polluted the capital of the nation with this brutalizing traffic" of selling people.
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