Josiah Maples | |
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 Ad for Forrest & Maples in the 1855 Memphis city directory | |
| Born | c. 1819 Alabama Territory or Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | September 22, 1876 Raleigh, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | American planter and slave trader |
Josiah Maples (c. 1819 – September 22, 1876) was a 19th-century cotton plantation owner, bank director, and slave trader of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas in the United States (and the Confederate States during the American Civil War). Maples is notable as a slave-trading business partner of Nathan Bedford Forrest.