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Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston (October 10, 1823 – January 3, 1875) was an American diarist, planter, and slave owner. She and her husband owned Looking Glass Plantation and Hascosea Plantation in Halifax County, North Carolina, which were given from her father as part of her dowry. They enslaved eighty-eight people on their plantations.
Thomas McCargo, also styled Thos. M'Cargo, (c. 1790 – after 1854) was a 19th-century American slave trader who worked in Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana. He is best remembered today for being one of the slave traders aboard the Creole , which was a coastwise slave ship that was commandeered by the enslaved men aboard and sailed ...
This list represents a fraction of the "many hundreds of participants in a cruel and omnipresent" American market. [12] "Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee" depicting a coffle from Virginia in 1850 (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum) Poindexter & Little, like many interstate slave-trading firms, had a buy-side in the upper south and a sell ...
Halifax County, Virginia: Political party: Democratic: ... 1855) was a 19th Century American physician, slave owner [1] [2] and U.S. Representative from Virginia from ...
Jared Ellison Groce (October 12, 1782, Halifax County, Virginia [1] – November 20, 1836 [2] [3]) was an American planter, slaveowner and settler. He was one of the first American settlers in Texas, making him one of the Old Three Hundred .
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 ...
[45] [47] The slave population increased in the counties now encompassing West Virginia in the years 1790 to 1850, but saw a decrease from 1850 to 1860, [48] by which year four percent (18,451) of western Virginia's total population were slaves, while slaves in eastern Virginia were about thirty percent (490,308) of the total population.
“Alexander Owen, a slave, was a rock mason who was born in 1830 or 1831 to Patrick and Lucy Hughes Owen. Mr. Owen represented Halifax County in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1869 to 1871.” [11] Mr. Owen did serve with David Canada, an African-American, in the Constitutional Convention of 1867 [11] [12]