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William Ellison Jr. (April 1790 – December 5, 1861), born April Ellison, was an American cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, and former African-American slave who achieved considerable success as a slaveowner before the American Civil War. He eventually became a major planter and one of the wealthiest property owners in the ...
Slave owners included a comparatively small number of people of at least partial African ancestry in each of the original Thirteen Colonies and later states and territories that allowed slavery; [2][3] in some early cases, black Americans also had white indentured servants. It has been widely claimed that an African former indentured servant ...
Anthony Johnson (colonist) An African man indentured in Maryland who amassed sizable landholding and had indentured servants and enslaved people in the 1600s. Anthony Johnson (c. 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan-born man who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom ...
According to a study by Black historian Carter G. Woodson, 3,777 free Black people owned 12,907 slaves in 1830 — about one-half of 1% of the two million people enslaved in America. And because ...
James G. Birney (1792–1857), an attorney and planter who freed his slaves and became an abolitionist. [40] James Blair (c. 1788 –1841), British MP who owned sugar plantations in Demerara. [41] Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), wealthy slave owner who became a Latin American independence leader and eventually an abolitionist.
Richard Edward Dereef (c. 1798–1876) was an African-American man and become a slave owner of forty African-American slaves, American lumber trader, and politician. [1] A member of a wealthy family of mixed African and European descent, Dereef was a prominent member of South Carolinian society but was subject to discrimination due to his race.
In the mid-1830s he met and married Claire Pollard, a wealthy free woman of color who owned a plantation and 44 slaves. [3] This marriage lasted till her death in 1852. His successful management of both his and his wife's properties allowed him to acquire additional properties, which included a plantation on the west bank of the Mississippi ...
Stephen Duncan. Stephen Duncan (March 4, 1787 – January 29, 1867) was an American planter and banker in Mississippi. He was born and studied medicine in Pennsylvania, but moved to Natchez District, Mississippi Territory in 1808 and became the wealthiest cotton planter and the second-largest slave owner in the United States with over 2,200 slaves.