Isaac Franklin
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Isaac Franklin was born in May 26, 1789 at Station Camp Creek in Sumner County, Tennessee. He was a veteran of the War of 1812.
He married Adelicia Hayes in 1839 and had four children, none of whom survived to adulthood. Isaac Franklin died in 1846, aged 56 or 57, while touring his plantations in Louisiana.
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[edit] Armfield and Franklin
In 1828 Isaac Franklin formed a partnership with John Armfield to establish a slave trading firm in Alexandria, Virginia.[1] The firm of Armfield and Franklin grew to become one of the largest in the interstate slave trade by the time the partners retired in 1836, selling the business to one of their agents, George Kephart.
[edit] Retirement
After his retirement, Mr. Franklin purchased a number of plantations in Louisiana and in Tennessee. In Gallatin, Tennessee, he purchased Fairvue (or Fairview) plantation and built his home there. In Louisiana he purchased eight plantations, first acquiring Belleview, Killarney and Loch Lomond and later acquiring four more, Angola (Angora), Loango, Panola and Monrovia.
[edit] Legacy
After his death his widow, Adelicia Franklin (Hayes) leased and later sold the plantations in Louisiana to Samuel James who leased prisoners from the state to run them. The state acquired the merged plantations under the name Angola in 1901 and they form the core of the Angola Prison.
[edit] References
- ^ Peter Kolchin, American Slavery, Penguin Books 1995 paperback edition, 97
