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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 ...
Youngest Confederate general officer on date of appointment. Assigned a division in Wheeler's corps. During Atlanta campaign raid, mortally wounded in an action at Franklin, Tennessee, September 2, 1864. Left with William H. Harrison family; died a few days later, probably September 4, 1864, aged 24. Kemper, James Lawson: Brigadier general
In January 1805, Chatham's slaves overpowered and whipped their overseer and assistants in a minor slave rebellion. An armed posse of white men quickly gathered. They killed one slave in the attack, and two more died trying to escape capture. Two other slaves were deported, likely to the Caribbean or Louisiana, and Fitzhugh soon sold the property.
Later elected president. Jackson owned many slaves. One controversy during his presidency was his reaction to anti-slavery tracts. During his campaign for the presidency, he faced criticism for being a slave trader. He did not free his slaves in his will. Spencer Jarnagin: Whig: Tennessee: Oct. 16, 1843 Mar. 2, 1847 Andrew Johnson
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Slave labor was not free of the perils of war, and Confederates occasionally wrote about slave laborers facing enemy shelling. [59] While slave-owners expected compensation when slaves died in the service of the Confederate Army, most Confederates did not own slaves and preferred a dead black worker than a dead white one.
William Joseph Hardee (October 12, 1815 – November 6, 1873) was a career U.S. Army and Confederate States Army officer. For the U.S. Army, he served in the Second Seminole War and in the Mexican–American War, where he was captured and exchanged.
William Booth Taliaferro was born in Gloucester County, Virginia, to an Anglo-Italian family, the Taliaferros.He was the son of Frances Amanda Todd (Booth) and Warner Throckmorton Taliaferro, [1] and the nephew of James A. Seddon, who would become Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America under Jefferson Davis.