Elizabeth Frazer Skelton

Elizabeth Frazer Skelton also called "Mammy Skelton" (1800–1855) was a Euro-African slave trader.

Life

She was the daughter of the slave trader John Frazer of Scotland (1769-1813) and the African woman Phenda. She had one brother, James, and three sisters, Margaret, Mary Ann and Eleanor.

Her father had emigrated to Liberia in 1797, but was banished because he engaged in slavery. Her mother Phenda was the widow of a British slave trader, and managed a slave trade business in African Bangalan, while Elizabeth's father managed the ship exporting the enslaved people to Charleston in South Carolina and (after 1807) to Spanish East Florida, where he also owned plantations managed by slave labor. Their trading post Victoria functioned as the conduit for slaves transported by canoe or overland to Portuguese Bissau. who belonged to the family of Niara Bely.