Isaac Franklin was born on May 26, 1789, at Pilot's Knob Plantation on Station Camp Creek in Sumner County, Tennessee. In West Feliciana Parish, his former Angola and other plantations were bought by the state in 1901 and converted for use as Louisiana State Penitentiary, the largest maximum-security prison in the United States. In the late 19th century, his widow eventually sold the Louisiana plantations. None of their four children survived to adulthood. At the age of 50, he was married, for the first time, to Adelicia Hayes of Nashville. His Fairvue plantation, in Sumner County, Tennessee, was formerly listed on the National Register of Historic Places.īy 1841, Franklin left slave trading and devoted his energy to the plantations and other property interests. Franklin owned six plantations in Louisiana and Tennessee. Based in Alexandria, Virginia, it also had offices in New Orleans and other Louisiana cities. He was the co-founder of Franklin & Armfield, which became the largest slave trading firm in the United States. Isaac Franklin (– April 27, 1846) was an American slave trader and plantation owner.
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