Jordan Arterburn and Tarlton Arterburn information

Jordan Arterburn
"Wanted—250 Negroes" "Negroes always on hand for sale." (Louisville Daily Courier, December 20, 1859)
Born	1808 Kentucky, U.S.
Died	1875 Kentucky, U.S.
Other names	Artreburn, Arterburne, J. Arterburn, Artibon
Occupation	Slave trader
Years active	1839?–1863?

Tarlton Arterburn
"FOR SALE at the Ferry Landing opposite Vicksburg, seventy likely Negroes, consisting of field hands, house servants, &c." (The Weekly American Banner, Yazoo City, Mississippi, December 20, 1844)
Born	1810 (1810) Kentucky, U.S.
Died	November 28, 1883(1883-11-28) (aged 72–73) Kentucky, U.S.
Other names	Tarleton, Artreburn, Arterburne, T. Arterburn
Occupation(s)	Slave trader, real estate agent
Years active	1839?–1863?

Jordan Arterburn (1808–1875) and Tarlton Arterburn (1810–1883) were brothers and interstate slave traders of the 19th-century United States. They typically bought enslaved people in their home state of Kentucky in the upper south, and then moved them to Mississippi in the lower south, where there was a constant demand for enslaved laborers on the plantations of King Cotton. Their "negroes wanted" advertisements ran in Louisville newspapers almost continuously from 1843 to 1859. In 1876, Tarlton Arterburn claimed they had taken profits of "30 to 40 percent a head" during their slave-trading days, and that Northern abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe had visited the Arterburn slave pen in Louisville while researching Uncle Tom's Cabin and A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. There is now a historical marker in Louisville at former site of the Arterburn slave jail, acknowledging the myriad abuses and human-rights violations that took place there.