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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 ...
Natchez to New Orleans: Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River by A. Persac (1858) showing cotton plantations of Mississippi along the Mississippi River, Natchez to state line 1860 US census, Mississippi, number of slaves per enslaver Former slave quarters at Jefferson Davis' plantation Brierfield in Mississippi, drawn by A.R. Waud, etching published 1866 in Harper's Weekly
African American history and culture scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote: ... the percentage of free black slave owners as the total number of free black heads of families was quite high in several states, namely 43 percent in South Carolina, 40 percent in Louisiana, 26 percent in Mississippi, 25 percent in Alabama and 20 percent in Georgia. [11]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Slave owners. It includes slave owners that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category contains women who owned enslaved people.
Charity Folks (1757–1834), African-American slave born in Annapolis, Maryland, released from slavery in 1797 and later became a property owner. [ 48 ] Charles Ayres Brown , enslaved mixed-raced man born in Buckingham County, Virginia around 1820 or 1821 who was a part of the contraband camp during the American Civil War in Corinth, Mississippi .
This is a list of slave traders of the United States, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States, i.e. the buying and selling of human chattel as commodities, primarily African-American people in the Southern United States, from the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 until the defeat of the ...
Pages in category "American slave owners" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,008 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "History of slavery in Mississippi" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...