Mason Harwell

Mason Harwell was an auctioneer, insurance broker, and a leading, if not the leading, slave trader in antebellum Montgomery, Alabama. According to Slavery in Alabama (1950), "After 1840 Montgomery was the principal market in the state." Sales in 1850s Montgomery often took place outdoors at a central landmark called the Artesian Basin. Around the turn of the century, an older resident of Montgomery told historian Frederic Bancroft, author of Slave-Trading in the Old South, that Harwell was "a man of respectable standing." Mason Harwell worked out of 21 Market Street. He had a second location a

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