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Aiken was a slave owner, and owned the Smith family slave plantation after marrying Miss Smith of Abbeville, which held about 40 slaves. [13] [14] William Aiken: Democratic: South Carolina's 6th district, 2nd district Mar. 3, 1851 Mar. 2, 1857 700+
The slave-stealing Patty Ridenour character in a sixth-season episode of Homicide: Life on the Street entitled "Sins of the Father" (aired January 9, 1998) appears to be modeled on Cannon. James McBride features Patty Cannon as a figure in his 2008 historical novel, Song Yet Sung (2008).
He is a mean-tempered, greedy Toydarian, and owner of a second-hand goods store in Mos Espa on the planet Tatooine. Among Watto's belongings are the slaves Shmi Skywalker and her son, Anakin. He acquires them after winning a podracing bet with Gardulla the Hutt, and he puts them both to work in his store. Anakin demonstrates an incredible ...
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
Antebellum city directories from slave states can be valuable primary sources on the trade; slave dealers listed in the 1855 directory of Memphis, Tennessee, included Bolton & Dickens, Forrest & Maples operating at 87 Adams, Neville & Cunningham, and Byrd Hill Slave depots, including ones owned by Mason Harwell and Thomas Powell, listed in the ...
Sharon Osbourne said on The Talk, "He's a magnificent man, but hey, your ancestor was a slave owner. Live with it." Read: Behind the Scenes at the Oscars when Ben Afflecks film Argo won Best Picture.
A freed slave customarily took the former owner's family name, which was the nomen (see Roman naming conventions) of the master's gens. The former owner became the patron (patronus) and the freed slave became a client (cliens) and retained certain obligations to the former master, who owed certain obligations in return. A freed slave could also ...
More than 1,000 Troost property owners, residents surveyed. I spoke with Robinson ahead of this week’s City Council meeting. She reiterated some key points about the proposed change.