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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 ...
James Uriah Adams. Joel Adams. Samuel Adams (Arkansas politician) William Wirt Adams. Henry Addison (mayor) Thomas Affleck (planter) African-American slave owners. Valcour Aime. Edward Porter Alexander.
While Bates is considered by some modern scholars as "generally unsympathetic to the cause of African American freedom," he emancipated all of his slaves and had paid for his last former slave's passage to Liberia by 1851. Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor: Jacksonian: Alabama's 2nd district Dec. 6, 1829 Mar. 2, 1831 33 [16] Yes Thomas Bayly: Federalist
It has been widely claimed that an African former indentured servant who settled in Virginia in 1621, Anthony Johnson, became one of the earliest documented slave owners in the mainland American colonies when he won a civil suit for ownership of John Casor. [4] However, The first "documented slave for life", John Punch, lived in Virginia but ...
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 ...
Joshua John Ward, of Georgetown County, South Carolina, is known as the American slaveholder who owned the most slaves at one point, [1] dubbed "the king of the rice planters". [2] In 1850 he held 1,092 slaves; [2] Ward was the largest slaveholder in the United States before his death in 1853. In 1860 his heirs (his estate) held 1,130 or 1,131 ...
The last living former slave in Fairmont, Fairmont County, West Virginia. [21] Matilda McCrear: 1857: January 1940: The last known survivor of the Clotilda in 1859–1860, the last trans-Atlantic slave ship to arrive in America from Africa. [22] Redoshi: 1848: 1937: The next to last known survivor of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to arrive ...
Andrew Jackson was a "slave speculator" until at least the War of 1812. Zachary Taylor was the last one who owned slaves during his presidency, and Ulysses S. Grant was the last president to have owned a slave at some point in his life. Of these presidents who owned slaves, Thomas Jefferson owned the most over his lifetime, with 600+ slaves ...