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John Newton captained slave ships and was enslaved himself in Sierra Leone. He became an abolitionist, calling the African slave trade "this stain of our National character". Cosmana Navarra (c. 1600 –1687), Maltese noblewoman and art patron who also owned slaves. [64] John Newton (1725–1807), British slave trader and later abolitionist. [227]
John Newton (/ ˈ nj uː t ən /; 4 August [O.S. 24 July] 1725 – 21 December 1807) was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist. He had previously been a captain of slave ships and an investor in the slave trade.
The Interior of South Carolina. A Corn-Shucking. Barnwell District, South Carolina, March 29, 1843" [14] in William Cullen Bryant's Letters from a Traveler, reprinted in The Ottawa Free Trader, Ottawa, Illinois, November 8, 1856 [15] List is organized by surname of trader, or name of firm, where principals have not been further identified.
I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives. University of South Carolina Press. Hill Edwards, Justene (2021). Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina. Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-54926-4. LCCN 2020038705.
Johnson, 68, traveled to North and South Carolina to research her maternal family history, discovering that Mills had owned Jerry and Myra, Johnson's great-great-grandparents, as slaves.
John S. Jacobs (1815–1873), born into slavery in North Carolina, escaped, became an abolitionist speaker and author of a slave memoir. Brother of famed author Harriet Jacobs . John Smith (1580–1631), English soldier, sailor, and author best known for his role in the survival of the Jamestown colony in Virginia.
Joshua John Ward, of Georgetown County, South Carolina, is known as the American who was the largest slaveholder at the time of his death in 1853, [1] dubbed "the king of the rice planters". [ 2 ] In 1850, Ward owned 1,092 enslaved people; [ 2 ] In 1860, Ward's heirs (his estate ) inherited 1,130 or 1,131 slaves.
Among the children of James and Judith Ladson were the businessman and plantation owner James H. Ladson (1795–1868), who owned over 200 slaves and served as the Danish consul in South Carolina. He was married to Eliza Ann Fraser, a daughter of the merchant and plantation owner Charles Fraser (1782–1860), who owned the Bellevue plantation ...