Thomas Griggs

Thomas Griggs was a 19th century Charlestown slaver.

In 1835, Griggs advertised that he was looking to buy slaves at the highest price and offered to purchase the men, women and children that anyone was looking to "dispose of".

Behind the scenes
Thomas Griggs was a real individual whose May 7 advertisement was included as part of the illustrations for the From Slavery to Freedom section of the Interactive Timeline. The Timeline mistakenly captions the advert as being from "circa 1853".