List of Rhode Island slave traders

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This is a list of slave traders based out of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, who typically ran slave ships between the coast of Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the southern states, predominantly before 1797–98.{{Cite journal |last=Marques |first=Leonardo |date=2012 |title=Slave Trading in a New World: The Strategies of North American Slave Traders in the Age of Abolition |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41478768 |journal=Journal of the Early Republic |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=233–260 |issn=0275-1275}}

• Shearjashub Bourne{{Cite journal |last=Donnan |first=Elizabeth |date=1930 |title=The New England Slave Trade after the Revolution |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/359697 |journal=The New England Quarterly |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=251–278 |doi=10.2307/359697 |issn=0028-4866|url-access=subscription }}
• Nathaniel Briggs and Thomas Briggs
• Brown brothers including John Brown and Samuel Brown
• Champlins
• Audley Clarke{{Cite journal |last=Wax |first=Darold D. |date=1984 |title="New Negroes Are Always in Demand": The Slave Trade in Eighteenth-Century Georgia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40581222 |journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly |volume=68 |issue=2 |pages=193–220 |issn=0016-8297}}
• Peleg Clarke, Newport
• The D'Wolf brothers, Bristol
• Caleb Gardner, Newport
• Gardner & Dean{{sfnp|Rothman|2005|p=86}}
• George Gibbs
• Jeremiah Ingraham
• Ebenezer Jenckes
• Aaron Lopez, Newport
• Samuel Packard{{Cite web |last=Hermann |first=Burkely |date=2021-07-25 |title="A man of wealth": Samuel Packard, the Rhode Island slaver |url=https://packedwithpackards.wordpress.com/2021/07/25/a-man-of-wealth-samuel-packard-the-rhode-island-slaver/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Packed with Packards! |language=en}}
• Abijah Potter
• Jacob Rodriguez Rivera
• Amasa Smith
• Cyprian Sterry and Nathan Sterry, Providence
• Constant Taber
• John Topham
• William Vernon, Newport