Rice C. Ballard

Franklin & Ballard trafficked Peter to Mississippi in the fall of 1835

Rice Carter Ballard (c. 1798 – August 31, 1860) was a 19th-century American slave trader, plantation owner, and cotton merchant. His slave trading partners were Isaac Franklin and John Armfield.[1] After leaving the slave-trading business, Ballard invested his profits in land and enslaved people. Together Ballard and his investment partner Samuel S. Boyd owned about 500 people in 1860.[2] The University of North Carolina holds an archive of Ballard's correspondence and business that has been uploaded to FromthePage.com, a crowdsourced transcription platform.[3]

  1. ^ "Rice C. Ballard papers, 1822-1888". researchworks.oclc.org. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
  2. ^ Scarborough, William Kauffman (2006-04-01). Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3155-8.
  3. ^ "Letters regarding slave women abuse". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2023-10-03.