1. Woolfolk was the first professional slave trader to make extensive use of the coastal trade routes to transport slaves to Natchez and New Orleans. By the mid-1820s, his family dominated the trade out of Maryland. Between 1819 and 1832, he shipped 2,228 captives south. Gudmenstad Robert H., The Troublesome Commerce: the transformation of the interstate Slave Trade, (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2003), p. 29. See also Schermerhorn Jack Lawrence, The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860 (London, Yale University Press, 2015), pp. 33–68.
2. The mutiny was widely reported. See for example, Essex Register, Salem, Massachusetts (22 May 1826), p. 3, City Gazette and Commercial, Charleston, South Carolina (26 May 1826), Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria, Virginia (22 May 1826).