From 1786 to the early 1830s, over twenty enslaved people lived and worked at Fort Hunter after their parents and ancestors had been stolen from Africa. The McAllister family, among the largest slave owners in Dauphin County, created all of Fort Hunter’s earliest surviving buildings. Along with free laborers, Black workers farmed the plantation, cooked, and ran the dairy at a property that also included a farm, a tavern, a distillery, and a mill. At least two families among the enslaved were the Craigs and the Jenkins. In 1828, Sall Craig fled bondage at about age 60 after the McAllisters, who had owned her since she was a girl, planned to sell her because of financial reversals. A sales advertisement called her strong and active for her age and said she was an excellent washer, baker, and cook who understood dairy management and soap boiling. By then, small free Black communities had formed in nearby Harrisburg and Halifax and may have provided aid and refuge to Sall, though nothing more is known of her story. Known enslaved people who once lived at Fort Hunter included Cato, Charles, Andrew Craig, Eliza Craig, Lucy Craig, Sall Craig, Daniel, George Hoofnagle, Hetty Gray, Isaac, Jack, son of Cato, James, Jem, Judy, Hallie Jenkins, Jack Jenkins, Maria Murry, Mary, Nance, Ned, and Tyra. In 2014, ground-penetrating radar identified nine graves, four of them unmarked, at the African American cemetery that was once part of the Fort Hunter property.