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While in Congress, Anderson advocated for the emancipation of all slaves and voted for the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, despite having been a slave-owner, possibly even at the time of his voting for the Amendment. Richard Clough Anderson Jr. Democratic-Republican: Kentucky's 8th District: Nov. 30, 1817 Mar. 2, 1821 Simeon H. Anderson ...
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 ...
List of members of the United States Congress who owned slaves This page was last edited on 26 January 2023, at 22:43 (UTC). Text is ...
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
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 .
In slave societies, nearly everyone – free and slave – aspired to enter the slaveholding class, and upon occasion some former slaves rose into slaveholders' ranks. Their acceptance was grudging, as they carried the stigma of bondage in their lineage and, in the case of American slavery, color in their skin. [10]
At the age of 26 in 1872, Lynch was elected as the youngest member of the US Congress from Mississippi's 6th congressional district, as part of the first generation of African-American Congressmen. (This district was created by the state legislature in 1870.) He was the only African American elected from Mississippi for a century.
In 1829, the State of Mississippi extended its sovereignty over the Choctaw and Chickasaw people living within the state. [33] The following year, the United States Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized negotiations with Native tribes to relinquish their lands east of the Mississippi River in exchange for lands west of the river. [34]