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History. Slave owners included a comparatively small number of people of at least partial African ancestry in each of the original Thirteen Colonies and later states and territories that allowed slavery; [2][3] in some early cases, black Americans also had white indentured servants. It has been widely claimed that an African former indentured ...
Anthony Johnson (colonist) An African man indentured in Maryland who amassed sizable landholding and had indentured servants and enslaved people in the 1600s. Anthony Johnson (c. 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan-born man who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom ...
William Ellison Jr. (April 1790 – December 5, 1861), born April Ellison, was an American cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, and former African-American slave who achieved considerable success as a slaveowner before the American Civil War. He eventually became a major planter and one of the wealthiest property owners in the ...
James G. Birney (1792–1857), an attorney and planter who freed his slaves and became an abolitionist. [41] James Blair (c. 1788 –1841), British MP who owned sugar plantations in Demerara. [42] Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), wealthy slave owner who became a Latin American independence leader and eventually an abolitionist.
t. e. The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South. Slavery was established throughout European colonization in the Americas.
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 ...
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". [2] In 1850, Ward enslaved 1,092 people; [2] Ward enslaved the most people in the United States before he died in 1853. In 1860, Ward's heirs (his estate) enslaved 1,130 or ...
Antebellum city directories from slave states can be valuable primary sources on the trade; slave dealers listed in the 1855 directory of Memphis, Tennessee, included Bolton & Dickens, Forrest & Maples operating at 87 Adams, Neville & Cunningham, and Byrd Hill Slave depots, including ones owned by Mason Harwell and Thomas Powell, listed in the ...