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James Ladson (1753–1812), lieutenant governor of South Carolina, he enslaved over 100 people in that state. [174] James H. Ladson (1795–1868), businessman and South Carolina planter. [175] Henry Laurens (1724–1792), 5th President of the Continental Congress, his company, Austin and Laurens, was the largest slave-trader in North America. [176]
South Carolina was the only English colony in North America that favored African labor over White indentured servitude and Indigenous labor. South Carolina had the highest ratio of Black slaves to White colonists in English North America, [3] [7] with the Black population reaching sixty percent of the total population by 1715. [4]
Alonzo James White (March 22, 1812 – July 1, 1885) was a 19th-century businessman of Charleston, South Carolina who was known as a "notorious" slave trader [1] and prolific auctioneer and thus oversaw the sales of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of enslaved Americans of African descent in his 30-year career in the American slave trade.
For most of the nineteenth century, slaves in South Carolina were born into slavery, not carried from Africa. By 1860, the slave population of South Carolina was just over 402,000, and the free black population was just over 10,000. At the same time, there were approximately 291,000 whites in the state, accounting for about 30% of the population.
Slavery was legally practiced in the Province of North Carolina and the state of North Carolina until January 1, 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Prior to statehood, there were 41,000 enslaved African-Americans in the Province of North Carolina in 1767. By 1860, the number of slaves in the state of ...
Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician who was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina.During the American Civil War, the still enslaved Smalls commandeered a Confederate transport ship in Charleston Harbor and sailed it from the Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.S. blockade that surrounded it.
The preservation of slavery also relied on territorial expansion, which is why most southern states supported the Mexican American War of 1846-1848, and it is the same reason why South Carolinian representatives pushed hard in an attempt to reopen the African slave trade in Congress but were unsuccessful, providing another reason why the state ...
According to North Carolina marriage records, John legally married Kitty Green on March 26, 1805. Their marriage was properly witnessed and bonded by the white bondsman, Marcus C. Stephen, for the purpose of again petitioning the State General Assembly in order to establish that his family had "all the rights and privileges of freedom, as ...