Lewis C. Robards

Lewis C. Robards
L. C. Robards and Washington Bolton offered a reward of US$1,400 (equivalent to $47,476 in 2023) reward for the recapture of George Keen, Jackson, Jerry, Joe (a blacksmith), John, Morris, and Reuben (The Louisville Daily Courier, November 17, 1854)
Born	c. 1817 Kentucky?
Died	Kentucky?
Other names	L. C. Robards, Louis C. Robards

Lewis C. Robards (fl. 1848–1855) was a 19th-century American slave trader of Lexington, Kentucky. He had an unscrupulous reputation as a dealer, and he was widely known for his "special" offerings: fancy girls, meaning young, light-skinned enslaved women and girls offered for sexual exploitation. Robards was also considered a likely culprit in several cases of kidnapping into slavery. His slave pen was funded in part by a loan from John Hunt Morgan; when he could not repay the loan his premises were sold to Bolton, Dickens & Co., a multi-state slave-trading firm based in West Tennessee.