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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 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 ...
Black slave owners in the United States. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American slave owners . It includes American slave owners that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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 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 ...
Johnson, who traveled to South Carolina and North Carolina in April 2024 to research her family history, said Mills and her husband Jerry were born into slavery and was able to locate the house in ...
African-American slave owners (35 P) H. Hispanic and Latino American slave owners (2 C, 5 P) M. Members of the United States Congress who owned slaves (2 C, 1 P) N.
Elected officials in Missouri's Jackson County are adding plaques to statues of the Kansas City area county's namesake noting that the nation's seventh president was a slave owner and forced ...