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Black slave owners were relatively uncommon, however, as "of the two and a half million African Americans living in the United States in 1850, the vast majority [were] enslaved." [1] The phenomenon of black slave owners remains a controversial topic among proponents of Afrocentrism." [1]
He eventually became a major planter and one of the wealthiest property owners in the state. According to the 1860 census (in which his surname was listed as "Ellerson"), he owned up to 68 black slaves, making him the largest of the 171 black slaveholders in South Carolina. He held 63 slaves at his death and more than 900 acres (360 ha) of land ...
Stanly was the illegitimate son of privateer John Wright Stanly and half-brother to U.S. Congressman John Stanly.He became known as one of the largest slave owners in North Carolina and the wealthiest free black resident.
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 ...
Joshua John Ward, of Georgetown County, South Carolina, is known as the American who enslaved the most people in the early 1850s, [1] dubbed "the king of the rice planters".
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.
This is going to cause harm to the Black community.” Troost is not the only major street or monument in Kansas City named after slave owners. Wornall Road, McGee Street and others come to mind.
Stephen Duncan (March 4, 1787 – January 29, 1867) was an American planter and banker in Mississippi.He was born and studied medicine in Pennsylvania, but moved to Natchez District, Mississippi Territory in 1808 and became the wealthiest cotton planter and the second-largest slave owner in the United States with over 2,200 slaves.