List of slave owners

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
(Redirected from
Slave owners
)

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.

A

B

1856 lithograph of Preston Brooks attacking Charles Sumner, who had spoken against slavery two days earlier

C

The reputation of Edward Colston, long praised for philanthropy, has been reassessed as his connections to slave-trading were uncovered. Protestors toppled his statue in Bristol in 2020.

D

A slave cabin on the grounds of the home of Sam Davis in Smyrna, Tennessee
Spanish Louisiana
.
  • Joseph Davis (1784–1870), eldest brother of Jefferson Davis and one of the wealthiest antebellum planters in Mississippi, he enslaved at least 345 people on his Hurricane Plantation.[86]
  • Sam Davis (1842–1863), Confederate soldier executed by Union forces. He came from a family of slave owners and, as a child, was gifted an enslaved person.[87]
  • Afro-Brazilian landowner, businessman, and nobleman. He owned several coffee plantations as well as around a thousand of slaves.[88]
  • Spanish Louisiana
    .
  • James De Lancey (1703–1760), judge and politician in colonial New York. His own slave, Othello, was accused of attending a meeting related to the Conspiracy of 1741 and De Lancey sentenced him and other suspected enslaved conspirators to death.[89]
  • James De Lancey (1746–1804), colonial American and leader of a loyalist brigade. When he fled to Nova Scotia after the War of Independence, he took six enslaved people with him.[90]
  • Abraham de Peyster (1657–1728), 20th mayor of New York City, he purchased two enslaved people in 1797.[91]
  • Demosthenes (384–322 BCE), Athenian statesman and orator who inherited at least 14 slaves from his father.[92]
  • Henry Denny Denson (c. 1715–1780), Irish-born soldier and politician in Nova Scotia, he enslaved at least five people.[93]
  • 1811 German Coast Uprising.[94]
  • Thomas Roderick Dew (1802–1846), president of the College of William & Mary; he was an influential pro-slavery advocate, owning one enslaved person himself.[95]
  • Founding Father of the United States. Largest slaveholder in Philadelphia in 1766, he freed them in 1777.[96]
  • theologian, and Princeton University professor. The 1840 US Census records Dod owning one enslaved female aged ten to twenty-four, making him one of the latest slaveholders in both Princeton and the entire state of New Jersey, which had adopted a system of gradual emancipation in 1804.[97]
  • Governor of the Wisconsin Territory. In 1827, defying the Northwest Ordinance's prohibition of slavery in the territory, Dodge brought five Black slaves from Missouri to work his lead mines.[98]
  • Thomas Dorland (1759–1832), Quaker, farmer and politician in Upper Canada, he enslaved as many as 20 people.[99]
  • Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861), U.S. Senator from Illinois and 1860 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate. He inherited a Mississippi plantation and 100 slaves from his father-in-law.[100] Historians continue to debate whether he opposed slavery.[101]
  • Richard Duncan (died 1819), politician in Upper Canada and slave owner.[15]
  • Stephen Duncan (1787–1867), originally from Pennsylvania, he became the wealthiest Southern cotton planter before the American Civil War with 14 plantations where he enslaved 2200 people.[102]
  • Robley Dunglison (1798–1869), English-American physician, medical educator and author—purchased slaves from Thomas Jefferson while teaching at University of Virginia.[103]

E

F

Senator Rebecca Latimer Felton, the last U.S. Congressmember to have enslaved people

G

  • Ana Gallum (or Nansi Wiggins; fl. 1811), was an African Senegalese slave who was freed and married the white Florida planter Don Joseph "Job" Wiggins, in 1801 succeeding in having his will, leaving her his plantation and slaves, recognized as legal.[122]
  • Horatio Gates (1727–1806), American general during the American Revolutionary War. Seven years later, he sold his plantation, freed his slaves, and moved north to New York.[123]
  • Sir John Gladstone (1764–1851), British politician, owner of plantations in Jamaica and Guyana, and recipient of the single largest payment from the Slave Compensation Commission.[124][125]
  • Estêvão Gomes (c. 1483–1538), Portuguese explorer, in 1525 he kidnapped at least 58 indigenous people from what is now Maine or Nova Scotia, taking them to Spain where he attempted to sell them as slaves.[126]
  • Antão Gonçalves (15th-century), Portuguese explorer and, in 1441, the first to enslave captive Africans and bring them to Portugal for sale.[127]
  • Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), Union general and 18th President of the United States, who acquired slaves through his wife and father-in-law.[128] On March 29, 1859, Grant freed his slave William Jones, making Jones the last person to have been enslaved by a person who later served as U.S. president.[129]
  • Robert Isaac Dey Gray (c. 1772–1804), Canadian politician and slave owner. In 1798 he voted against a proposal to expand slavery in Upper Canada.[130]
  • Curtis Grubb (c. 1730–1789), Pennsylvania iron master and one of the state's largest enslavers at the time of U.S. independence.[131]

H

  • James Henry Hammond (1807–1864), U.S. Senator and South Carolina governor, defender of slavery, and owner of more than 300 slaves.[132]
  • Wade Hampton I (c. 1752 – 1835), American general, Congressman, and planter. One of the largest slave-holders in the country, he was alleged to have conducted experiments on the people he enslaved.[133][134]
  • Wade Hampton II (1791–1858), American soldier and planter with land holdings in three states. He held a total of 335 slaves in Mississippi by 1860.[135]
  • Lost Cause.[136]
  • John Hancock (1737–1793), American statesman. He inherited several household slaves who were eventually freed through the terms of his uncle's will; there is no evidence that he ever bought or sold slaves himself.[137]
  • Benjamin Harrison IV (1693–1745), American planter and politician. Upon his death his each of his ten surviving children inherited slaves from his estate.[138]
  • Benjamin Harrison V (1726–1791), American politician, United States Declaration of Independence signatory, he inherited a plantation and the people enslaved upon it from his father.[139]
  • William Henry Harrison (1773–1841), 9th President of the United States, he owned eleven slaves.[140]
  • Patrick Henry (1736–1799), American statesman and orator. He wrote in 1773, "I am the master of slaves of my own purchase. I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living here without them. I will not, I cannot justify it."[141]
  • U.S. Declaration of Independence. He impregnated at least one of the women he enslaved, making him the grandfather of Thomas E. Miller, one of only five African Americans elected to Congress from the South in the 1890s.[142]
  • George Hibbert (1757–1837), English merchant, politician, and ship-owner. A leading member of the pro-slavery lobby, he was awarded £16,000 in compensation after Britain abolished slavery.[143]
  • Thomas Hibbert (1710–1780), English merchant, he became rich from slave labor on his Jamaican plantations.[144]
  • Eufrosina Hinard (born 1777), a free black woman in New Orleans, she owned slaves and leased them to others.[145]
  • Thomas C. Hindman (1828–1868), American politician and Confederate general. During the Civil War he rented two enslaved families to the Medical Director of the Army of Tennessee.[146]
  • Arthur William Hodge (1763–1811), British Virgin Islands planter, the first, and likely only, British subject executed for the murder of his own slave.[147]
  • Jean-François Hodoul (1765–1835), captain, corsair, merchant and plantation owner who moved from France and settled in Mauritius and Seychelles.[148]
  • Johns Hopkins (1795–1873), philanthropist who donated seed money for the creation of Johns Hopkins University.[149]
  • Sam Houston (1793–1863), U.S. Senator, President of the Republic of Texas, 6th Governor of Tennessee, and 7th Governor of Texas; he enslaved twelve people.[150]
  • thralls (slaves) rebelled and killed him.[151]
  • Abijah Hunt (1762–1811), planter and merchant in the Natchez District in Mississippi. In 1808, he sold one of his plantations, complete with 60 or 61 slaves.[152]
  • David Hunt (1779–1861), wealthy planter in the Natchez District of Mississippi and the largest benefactor of Oakland College, he enslaved nearly 1,700 people.[153]
  • Margaret Hutton (1727–1797), largest enslaver in Pennsylvania at the time of the first federal census.[154]

I

  • Ibn Battuta (1304 – c. 1368), Muslim Berber Moroccan scholar and explorer. He enslaved girls and women in his harem.[155]
  • Emina Ilhamy (1858–1931), Egyptian princess, she gifted enslaved concubines to her son and owned slaves until the First World War.[156]

J

In 1769 Thomas Jefferson placed an advertisement in the Virginia Gazette offering a reward for an escaped slave named Sandy.

K

L

Toussaint Louverture was born into slavery, then owned slaves, and eventually liberated Haiti's slaves.

M

General Marion Inviting a British Officer to Share His Meal (c. 1835); his slave Oscar Marion kneels at the left of the group.
Mansa Musa, accompanied by thousands of slaves, traveling to Mecca

N

John Newton captained slave ships and was enslaved himself in Sierra Leone. He became an abolitionist, calling the African slave trade "this stain of our National character".
  • John Newton (1725–1807), British slave trader and later abolitionist.[215]
  • Nicias (c. 470–413 BCE), Athenian politician and general. Plutarch recorded that he enslaved more than 1,000 people in his silver mines.[216]
  • hetaera.[217]

O

  • Susannah Ostrehan (died 1809), Barbadian businesswoman, herself a freed slave, she bought some slaves (including her own family) in order to free them, but kept others to labor on her properties.[218]
  • James Owen (1784–1865), American politician, planter, major-general and businessman, he owned the enslaved scholar Omar ibn Said.[219]

P

Q

R

"The slaves of Buenos Aires praising their noble liberator." In fact, de Rosas revived the slave trade and owned slaves himself.

S

1895 illustration depicting the c. 1655 slave-auction organized by Peter Stuyvesant

T

Robert Toombs
Wesley John Gaines
Robert Toombs (left) and one of the men he enslaved, Bishop Wesley John Gaines (right)

U

V

W

Painting
Life of George Washington: The Farmer (1851); his slaves harvest grain behind him.

Y

  • William Lowndes Yancey (1814–1863), American secessionist leader, he was gifted 36 people as a dowry and established a plantation where he forced them to work.[320]
  • Marie-Marguerite d'Youville (1701–1771), the first person born in Canada to be declared a saint and "one of Montreal's more prominent slaveholders".[321]
  • David Levy Yulee (1810–1886), American politician and attorney, he forced enslaved people to work his Florida sugarcane plantation and later to build a railroad.[322]

Z

See also

References

  1. . Retrieved 30 September 2023. Ibn Saud had come from Jidda on an American destroyer, the USS Murphy, with an entourage of bodyguards, cooks, and slaves
  2. on 18 March 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2023. During the four-hour meeting between the President and the King, where the two discussed oil, Palestinian territories and their future partnership, "7-foot tall Nubian slaves" could be found on the opposite deck of the destroyer
  3. . Retrieved 30 September 2023. 1936, the same year in which King Abd al Aziz ibn Abd ar Rahman Al Saud (r. 1902-53) decreed the Saudi Arabian slave regulations
  4. ^ James A. Hoobler, Sarah Hunter Marks, Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers, Arcadia Publishing, 2000, p. 36
  5. ^ "Biography – Agnew, Stair – Volume VI (1821–1835) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca.
  6. ^ Bigner, Melissa (February 2012). "Living History". Charleston Magazine.
  7. JSTOR 3514348
    .
  8. ^ Spray, W.A. (1979–2016). "Jones, Caleb". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  9. ^ Bumgardner, Sarah (29 November 1995). "Tredegar Iron Works: A Synecdoche for Industrialized Antebellum Richmond". Antebellum Richmond. Archived from the original on 8 September 2008.
  10. JSTOR 42627764
    .
  11. Washington Post
    . Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  12. pp. 145–148
  13. .
  14. .
  15. ^ .
  16. ^ "An act to prevent the further introduction of slaves". Upper Canada History. 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  17. ^ Warrick, Joby (27 October 2019). "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 October 2019. Later, former hostages would reveal that Mr. Baghdadi also kept a number of personal sex slaves during his years as the Islamic State's leader
  18. ^ Zuiderweg, Adrienne (13 January 2014). "Bake, Adriana Johanna (1724–1787)". Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
  19. ^ Keen, Benjamin (8 January 2021). "Vasco Núñez de Balboa". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  20. ^ Elena D. Gheorghe, Gabriel Stegărescu, "Monografia comunei Bolintinul din Deal", in Sud. Revistă Editată de Asociația pentru Cultură și Tradiție Istorică Bolintineanu, Issues 1–2/2013, pp. 29–30
  21. OCLC 7270251
  22. ^ "Elizabeth Swain Bannister". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. London: University College London. 2020. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  23. ^ "Δήμος Κέρκυρας – Δεύτερη Ενετοκρατία". www.corfu.gr.
  24. ^ McKee, James W. (13 April 2018). "William Barksdale". Mississippi Encyclopedia. Center for Study of Southern Culture. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  25. ^ "The Diary of Bennet H. Barrow, Louisiana Slaveowner". www.sjsu.edu. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  26. ^ "Bill of sale from the heirs of Jesse Batey to Washington Barrow, January 18, 1853 · Georgetown Slavery Archive". slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  27. Newspapers.com
    .
  28. ^ a b Frost, Amy (2007), "Big Spenders: The Beckford's and Slavery", BBC
  29. ^ Elliott, Shirley B. (1979–2016). "Belcher, Benjamin". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  30. ^ Stewart R. King: Blue Coat Or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-revolutionary Saint Domingue
  31. JSTOR 29777899
    .
  32. ^ Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. Kansas State Historical Society. 1923. p. 61.
  33. JSTOR 1842457
  34. , retrieved 13 January 2013
  35. ^ Humphreys, Joe (18 June 2020). "What to do about George Berkeley, Trinity figurehead and slave owner?". The Irish Times. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  36. ^ Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction; by Allen C. Guelzo, May 18, 2012, kindle location 935
  37. ^ "Mauritius 5132 Claim". University College London (Dept. of History) Legacies of British Slavery. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  38. ^ "Mauritius 6950 Claim". University College London (Dept. of History) Legacies of British Slavery. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  39. ^ "James Blair: Profile & Legacies Summary". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. UCL Department of History. 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  40. ^ Manrique, Jaime (26 March 2006). "Simon Bolivar's extreme makeover". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  41. ^ Hanabarger, Linda (13 July 2010). "The story of Illinois' first governor". The Leader-Union. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  42. ^ Coté, André (1979–2016). "Marie". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  43. .
  44. ^ Storrar, Krissy (4 April 2021). "The first 'blackbirder:' Rebranding for Australian village named after Scottish slave trader". The Sunday Post. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  45. ^ Hartocollis, Anemona (26 April 2022). "Harvard Details Its Ties to Slavery and Its Plans for Redress". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  46. .
  47. .
  48. ^ Puleo, Stephen. "Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks". Bill of Rights Institute. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  49. .
  50. ^ Dunlop, Allan C. (1979–2016). "Burbridge, John". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  51. ^ "Butler Family". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  52. .
  53. .
  54. .
  55. .
  56. ^ Wilson, Clyde N. (26 June 2014). "John C. Calhoun and Slavery as a 'Positive Good': What He Said". The Abbeville Institute. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  57. ISSN 2769-0806
    . Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  58. ^ "Watford's slavery past discovered". Watford Observer. 23 March 2007. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  59. .
  60. .
  61. ^ Carlton, Florence Tyler (1982). A Genealogy of the Known Descendants of Robert Carter of Corotoman.
  62. .
  63. ^ Pilgrim, David (November 2005). "Question of the Month: Drapetomania". Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
  64. .
  65. ^ Mangion, Giovanni (1973). "Girolamo Cassar Architetto maltese del cinquecento" (PDF). Melita Historica (in Italian). 6 (2). Malta Historical Society: 192–200. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2016.
  66. ^ Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men. Vol. 1. Translated by Langhorne, John; Langhorne, William. London: Henry G. Bohn. 1853. p. 389.
  67. .
  68. ^ "National Park Service". Archived from the original on 22 April 2010.
  69. ^ William E. Foley, "Slave Freedom Suits before Dred Scott: The Case of Marie Jean Scypion's Descendants", Missouri Historical Review, 79, no. 1 (October 1984), pp. 1–5, at The State Historical Society of Missouri, accessed 18 February 2011
  70. S2CID 163283620
    . Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  71. ^ "Lewis and Clark . Inside the Corps . York". PBS.
  72. ^ Welch 1999.
  73. ^ "History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places". Smithsonian.
  74. . Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  75. ^ Coles, Edward. "Autobiography." April 1844. Coles Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
  76. ISSN 0196-1373. Archived from the original
    on 10 November 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  77. .
  78. .
  79. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5996. Retrieved 14 August 2010. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  80. ^ Loewen, James W. (1995). Lies My Teacher Told Me. The New Press. pp. 57–58.
  81. ^ Jane Landers, Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America, UNM Press, 2006, p. 43
  82. ^ Lachance, André (1979–2016). "Couagne, Thérèse de". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  83. ^ "Suffolk and the slave trade". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  84. .
  85. ^ Lasswell Crist, Lynda (February 2016). "Joseph Emory Davis: A Mississippi Planter Patriarch". Mississippi History Now. Mississippi Historical Society. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  86. ^ DeGennaro, Nancy. "Confederate monuments: Sam Davis, a slave-owning soldier mythologized as a 'Boy Hero'". The Daily News Journal. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  87. ^ Lopes, Marcus (15 July 2018). "A história esquecida do 1º barão negro do Brasil Império, senhor de mil escravos". BBC News. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  88. .
  89. ^ Moody, Barry M. (1979–2016). "DeLancey (de Lancey, De Lancey, Delancey), James". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  90. ^ Fellows, Jo-Ann (1979–2016). "De Peyster, Abraham". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  91. ^ Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1, 6. Archived 20 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  92. ^ Bumsted, J. M. (1979–2016). "Denson, Henry Denny". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  93. ^ "Jean Noël Destrehan" by John H. Lawrence, KnowLouisiana.org Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Ed. David Johnson. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 18 Jun 2013. Web. 15 Apr 2017.
  94. ^ Ely, Melvin Patrick; Loux, Jennifer R. (12 February 2021). "Dew, Thomas R. (1802–1846)". Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  95. .
  96. ^ Mack, Jessica R. "Albert Dod". Princeton & Slavery. The Trustees of Princeton University. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  97. ^ "Redfearn, Winifred V. "Slavery in Wisconsin" Wisconsin 101: Our History in Objects September 11, 2018".
  98. ^ Fraser, Robert Lochiel (1979–2016). "Dorland, Thomas". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  99. ^ "Stephen A. Douglas and the American Union, University of Chicago Library Special Exhibit, 1994". Lib.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  100. JSTOR 1902683
    .
  101. ^ Brazy, Martha Jane (19 April 2018). "Stephen Duncan". Mississippi Encyclopedia. Center for Study of Southern Culture. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  102. ^ Schulman, Gayle M. "Slaves at the University of Virginia" (PDF). www.latinamericanstudies.org. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  103. . ...they owned several slaves. Beginning in June 1731, Edwards joined the slave trade, buying 'a Negro Girle named Venus ages Fourteen years or thereabout' in Newport, at an auction, for 'the Sum of Eighty pounds.'
  104. ^ Stinson, Susan (5 April 2012). "The Other Side of the Paper: Jonathan Edwards as Slave-Owner". Valley Advocate. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  105. ^ McClellan McAndrew, Tara (12 January 2017). "Slavery in the Land of Lincoln". Illinois Times.
  106. S2CID 149992126
    .
  107. ^ Higman, Montpelier (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 1998), pp. 20, 24.
  108. ^ Larry Koger, Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790–1860, University of South Carolina Press, 1985 (paperback edition, 1995), pp. 144–145
  109. ^ "Mauritius 5696 Claim 16th Jan 1837 103 Enslaved £3194 15s 6d". University College London. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  110. ^ "Mauritius 3901 A Claim 31st Jul 1837 332 Enslaved £10757 2s 0d". University College London. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  111. ^ Calautti, Katie (2 March 2014). ""What'll Become of Me?" Finding the Real Patsey of 12 Years a Slave". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  112. ^ Theuws, De Jong and van Rhijn, Topographies of Power, p. 255.
  113. ^ Mouser, Bruce L. (17 October 1980). "Women Traders and Big-Men of Guinea-Conakry" (PDF). tubmaninstitute.ca. Tubman Institute. pp. 6–8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  114. ^ "Peter Faneuil and Slavery". Boston African American National Historic Site. National Park Service. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  115. .
  116. .
  117. ^ Nash, Gary B. "Franklin and Slavery." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 150, no. 4 (2006): 620.
  118. ^ Betsy Phillips (7 May 2015). "Isaac Franklin's money had a major influence on modern-day Nashville — despite the blood on it". Nashville Scene. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  119. .
  120. .
  121. ^ Jane Landers, Black Society in Spanish Florida
  122. ^ Mellen, G. W. F. (1841). An Argument on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery. Saxton & Peirce. pp. 47–48.
  123. ^ Michael Craton, "Proto-peasant revolts? The late slave rebellions in the British West Indies 1816–1832." Past & Present 85 (1979): 99–125 online.
  124. ^ "Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners, Profit and Loss". BBC Two. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  125. ^ Vigneras, L.A. (1979–2016). "Gomes, Estêvão". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  126. .
  127. .
  128. ^ "William Jones (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  129. ^ Burns, Robert J. (1979–2016). "Gray, Robert Isaac Dey". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  130. .
  131. ^ Brown, Rosellen (29 January 1989). "Monster of All He Surveyed". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  132. ^ http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msissaq2/hampton.html The Wade Hampton Family, The Issaquena Genealogy and History Project, Rootsweb, retrieved May 7, 2017
  133. ^ American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, p. 29, retrieved 27 May 2020
  134. ^ "Wade Hampton Family", Issaquena Genealogy and History Project, Rootsweb, accessed 6 November 2013
  135. ^ Demer, Lisa (2 July 2015). "Wade Hampton no more: Alaska census area named for confederate officer gets new moniker". Alaska Dispatch News. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  136. .
  137. .
  138. ^ Dowdey, Clifford (1957). The Great Plantation. New York: Rinehart & Co. p. 162.
  139. ^ Whitney, Gleaves, "Slaveholding Presidents" (2006). Ask Gleaves. Paper 30. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/ask_gleaves/30
  140. .
  141. ^ Glass, Andrew (8 April 2018). "Final member of a generation of Southern black lawmakers dies, April 8, 1938". Politico. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  142. ^ Source: Slavery Abolition Act (P.P. 1837–8, XLVIII); NA, Treasury Papers, slave compensation T71/852-900. – referenced in Draper, N. (2008). "The City of London and slavery: evidence from the first dock companies, 1795–1800". Economic History Review, 61, 2 (2008), pp.432–466.
  143. ^ "Hibbert, George (1757–1837), of Clapham, Surr". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  144. .
  145. .
  146. .
  147. ^ "Compensation claim 6147". Legacies of Slavery UCL. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  148. ^ "Noted abolitionist Johns Hopkins owned slave".
  149. ^ Krystyniak, Frank (20 July 2018). "Houston, the Emancipator". Today@Sam. Sam Houston State University. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  150. ^ "Hjörleifshöfði". brydebud.vik.is. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  151. . Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  152. .
  153. ^ United States Bureau of the Census (1909). A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 137.
  154. .
  155. .
  156. ^ "Andrew Jackson's Enslaved Laborers". The Hermitage. Archived from the original on 12 September 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  157. ^ "William James MP: Profile & Legacies Summary". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. UCL Department of History 2014. 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  158. ^ "Henry Lewis: seeking freedom". Archives of Ontario. Retrieved 14 June 2019. Hannah Jarvis incorrectly wrote about the Slave Act that Simcoe... 'has by a piece of chacanery freed all the negroes...'
  159. ^ Verell, Nancy (14 April 2015). "Peter Jefferson". www.monticello.org. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  160. ^ Stockman, Farah (16 June 2018). "Monticello Is Done Avoiding Jefferson's Relationship With Sally Hemings". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  161. p. 2.
  162. ^ "Slaves of Andrew Johnson". Andrew Johnson. National Park Service. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  163. ^ Silverman, Jason H. (1979–2016). "King, William". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  164. .
  165. .
  166. ^ Dodge, Ernest S. (1979–2016). "Knight, James". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  167. ^ We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution
  168. ^ The history of Georgetown County, South Carolina, p. 297 and p. 525, University of South Carolina Press, 1970
  169. ^ "Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice" (PDF). Brown University. October 2006.
  170. .
  171. ^ Lamont, John (21 March 2017). "Summary of Individual". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  172. ^ Carolyn Morrow Long: A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau, 2018
  173. .
  174. ^ "Sully Historic Site History". Fairfax County, Virginia. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  175. ^ Storrow, Emily (18 March 2015). "Griffin: Slave owners here no more benevolent than others". Wilkes Journal-Patriot.
  176. ^ Gail Guymon, National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form for Lenoir Cotton Mill Warehouse, February 2006. Retrieved: 2009-11-03.
  177. ^ "A Tale of Two Columbias: Francis Lieber, Columbia University and Slavery | Columbia University and Slavery". columbiaandslavery.columbia.edu. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  178. S2CID 254496072
    .
  179. Yahoo News
    . Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  180. required.)
  181. ^ Gayle M. Schulman (2005). "Slaves at the University of Virginia" (PDF). Latin American Studies. Retrieved 17 October 2020. Soon after he arrived from England George Long acquired a slave, Jacob.
  182. ^ de Cauna, Jacques. 2004. Toussaint L'Ouverture et l'indépendance d'Haïti. Témoignages pour une commémoration. Paris: Ed. Karthala. pp. 63–65
  183. ^ Wallace, C.M. (1979–2016). "Ludlow, George Duncan". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  184. ^ Morel, André (1979–2016). "Lynd, David". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  185. .
  186. ^ Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling. (Jan. 2012), A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons, Foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Chapter 1
  187. ^ Singapore, National Library Board. "Purbawara Panglima Awang – BookSG – National Library Board, Singapore". eresources.nlb.gov.sg. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  188. .
  189. ^ "Truth and Justice Commission Report Vol. 1" (PDF). Government of Mauritius. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  190. . Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  191. ^ Luebke, Peter C. (12 February 2021). "Mahone, William (1826–1895)". Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  192. ^ "American slave owners". Geni. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  193. ^ Young, Jeffrey Robert. Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670–1837. University of North Carolina Press, 1999, p. 93
  194. . Marryat, Joseph (1757–1824), West Indian slave owner, ship owner, and politician ... An inheritance of £2000 from an uncle enabled him to set up as a merchant and to invest over time in plantations and enslaved people in Trinidad, Grenada, Jamaica, and St Lucia. ... At the time of emancipation his sons Joseph Marryat (1790–1876) and Charles Marryat (1803–1884), who had taken on the merchant house, received compensation of over £40,000 for 700 enslaved men and women in Trinidad, Jamaica, St Lucia, and Grenada.
  195. .
  196. ^ Copeland, Pamela C.; MacMaster, Richard K. (1975). The Five George Masons: Patriots and Planters of Virginia and Maryland. University Press of Virginia. p. 162. .
  197. ^ a b c "Massie family papers, 1766–1920s - Archives & Manuscripts at Duke University Libraries". David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
  198. ^ Hollingsworth, Julia (29 July 2020). "Samoan chief in New Zealand sentenced to 11 years in jail for slavery but experts say he is just the tip of the iceberg". CNN. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  199. ^ Ambuske, Jim. Accounting for Women in the Business of Slavery with Alexi Garrett (Audio). Mount Vernon.
  200. ^ Everett-Green, Robert (12 May 2018). "200 Years a Slave: The Dark History of Captivity in Canada". The Globe and Mail.
  201. ^ Van Deusen, John G. (1961). "Middleton, Henry". Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 6 (revised ed.). New York: Scribner's. p. 600.
  202. JSTOR 274780
    .
  203. ^ "1811 Jamaica Almanac – Clarendon Slave-owners". Jamaicanfamilysearch.com. Archived from the original on 10 August 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  204. .
  205. ^ Gawalt, Gerard W. (1993). "James Monroe, Presidential Planter". Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 101 (2): 251–272.
  206. ^ "Statue of famous Italian journalist defaced in Milan". Al Jazeera. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  207. .
  208. ^ Clavin, Matthew (1 January 2016). "When Florida Men Overcame Our Racists". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  209. ^ "Slavery through the Eyes of Revolutionary Generals". 7 November 2017.
  210. ^ "Slavery in Islam". British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  211. . p. 226.
  212. . Originally published New York, Penguin Press, 2004. p. 214.
  213. ^ de Graft-Johnson, John Coleman, "Mūsā I of Mali" Archived 2017-04-21 at the Wayback Machine, Encyclopædia Britannica, 15 November 2017.
  214. ^ Hochschild, Adam (2005), Bury the Chains, The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery, Basingstoke: Pan Macmillan, p. 77
  215. ^ Plutarch, The Lives, "Nicias"
  216. .
  217. ^ Candlin, Kit; Pybus, Cassandra (2015). "A Lasting Testament of Gratitude: Susannah Ostrehan and her nieces". Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic. University of Georgia Press. pp. 83, 89.
  218. ^ Hunwick, John O. (2004). "I Wish to be Seen in Our Land Called Afrika: Umar b. Sayyid's Appeal to be Released from Slavery (1819)" (PDF). Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 5.
  219. ^ "Plantation Life & Slavery". The Rosewell Foundation. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  220. ^ Régnier, Louis-Ferdinand (March 2010). "Suzanne Amomba Paillé, une femme guyanaise". Blada (in French). French Guiana. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  221. . Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  222. ^ "George Palmer: Profile & Legacies Summary". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  223. ^ Avery, Ron (20 December 2010). "Slavery stained some unlikely founders, too". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
  224. ^ "Penrhyn Castle Slavery | The Pennants". www.spanglefish.com.
  225. ^ Garraty, John A.; Carnes, Mark C., eds. (1999). American National Biography. Vol. 17. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 414–415 – via American Council of Learned Societies.
  226. ^ Candlin, Kit; Pybus, Cassandra (2015). Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-4455-3.
  227. ^ "Summary of Individual | Legacies of British Slave-ownership". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  228. ^ Pares, Richard (1950). A West India Fortune. Longmans Green & Co.
  229. ^ "The Mountravers Plantation Community, 1734 to 1834". Mountravers Plantation (Pinney's Estate) Nevis, West Indies. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  230. ^ Laërtius, Diogenes. Lives of the Eminent Philosophers.
  231. .
  232. ^ Dio 52.23.2; Pliny the Elder, Natural History 9.39; Seneca the Younger, On Clemency 1.18.2.
  233. .
  234. .
  235. ^ Kinslow, Zacharie W. "Enslaved and Entrenched: The Complex Life of Elias Polk". White House Historical Association. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  236. ^ Greenberg, Amy (2019). Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk. Knopf.
  237. Project MUSE
    .
  238. .
  239. ^ Lawler, Edward Jr. "Washington, the Enslaved, and the 1780 Law". The President's House, Philadelphia. USHistory.org. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  240. ^ David Lodge, "John Randolph and His Slaves", Shelby County History, 1998, accessed 15 March 2011
  241. ^ Klickna, Cinda (2003). "Slavery in Illinois". Illinois Heritage. Illinois Periodicals Online.
  242. .
  243. .
  244. ^ Peter Dizikes (12 February 2018). "MIT class reveals, explores Institute's connections to slavery". MIT News Office. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  245. .
  246. . Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  247. ^ Dale Edwyna Smith, The Slaves of Liberty: Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820–1868, Routledge, 2013, pp. 15–21
  248. ^ Stewart R. King: Blue Coat Or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-revolutionary Saint Domingue
  249. ^ "The Royalls". Royall House & Slave Quarters. 2 October 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  250. ^ Peppiatt, Liam. "Chapter 41: A Sketch of Russell Abbey". Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto Revisited.
  251. ^ "Intellectual Founders – Slavery at South Carolina College, 1801–1865". University of South Carolina Libraries. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  252. 's Reference Online (subscription required)
  253. ^ Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Dictionary of African Biography, Volym 1–6
  254. ^ Bregnsbo, Michael. "Ernst Schimmelmann". Den Store Danske, Gyldendal. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  255. ^ Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston
  256. ^ David S. Shields, The Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining
  257. ^ Wylie, W. Gill (1884). Memorial Sketch of the Life of J. Marion Sims. New York: D. Appleton and Company.
  258. ^ Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, Volume 6, Tuttle, Morehouse, and Taylor: New Haven, 1900, "Negro Governors", Orville Platt, pp. 327–9
  259. ^ Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography, Oxford University Press, 2016
  260. ^ Davidson, James West. After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection Volume 1. McGraw Hill, New York 2010, Chapter 1, p. 3
  261. .
  262. .
  263. ^ Blumrosen, Alfred W. & Blumrosen, Ruth G. Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution. Sourcebooks, 2005.
  264. .
  265. ^ John Stuart – Dictionary of Canadian Biography Retrieved 2015-04-07
  266. ^ "The Case Against Peter Stuyvesant". New York Almanack. 16 December 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  267. ^ Smith, Stephen D. (12 October 2016). "African Americans in the Revolutionary War". South Carolina Encyclopedia. University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  268. ^ Bugeja, Anton (2014). "Clemente Tabone: The man, his family and the early years of St Clement's Chapel" (PDF). The Turkish Raid of 1614: 42–57. Archived from the original on 20 June 2018.
  269. .
  270. ^ "Enslaved African Americans and the Fight for Freedom". Historic Fort Snelling – Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  271. The Catholic Encyclopedia, New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. Retrieved May 28, 2009 from New Advent
    .
  272. . Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  273. ^ Whelan, Frank (15 June 1984). "George Taylor: A Historical Perspective Founding Father's Patriotic Beliefs Cost Him Everything". The Morning Call. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  274. The Ouachita Citizen
    , August 6, 2014
  275. ^ Edward Telfair Papers, 1764–1831; 906 Items & 5 Volumes; Savannah, Georgia; "Papers of a merchant, governor of Georgia, and delegate to the Continental Congress".
  276. .
  277. ^ "Madam Tinubu: Inside the political and business empire of a 19th century heroine". The Nation. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  278. ^ Sheriff, Abdul (1987). Slaves, Spices & Ivory in Zanzibar: Integration of an East African Commercial Empire into the World Economy, 1770–1873. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. p. 108.
  279. ^ "São João del-Rei On-Line / Celebridades / Joaquim José da Silva Xavier". www.sjdr.com.br. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  280. ^ "'Disgusted' Women, Minorities Criticize Viral Atlantic Story 'My Family's Slave'". Observer. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  281. ^ "Jackson Chapel to celebrate 150 years in special service with Bishop Jackson – www.news-reporter.com – News-Reporter".
  282. ^ Betty Myers (August 1973). "Annandale Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  283. ^ "Saudi linguist gets reduced sentence in sex slave case". KDVR. Centennial, Colo. 25 February 2011. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  284. .
  285. ^ Costello, Matthew (27 November 2019). "The Enslaved Households of President Martin Van Buren". The Whitehouse Historical Association. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  286. ^ Williamson, N. Michelle (21 November 2013). "Joseph Vann (1798–1844)". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  287. OCLC 555658364
    .
  288. ^ Fernández-Armesto, Felipe (2007). Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America. New York: Random House. pp. 178–180.
  289. .
  290. .
  291. ^ Ronald L. Holt. Beneath These Red Cliffs. USU Press. p. 25.
  292. ^ Larson, Gustive O. "Walkara's Half Century". Western Humanities Review; Salt Lake City Vol. 6, Iss. 3, (Summer 1952): 235.
  293. ^ Williams, Don B (2004). Slavery in Utah Territory: 1847-1865. Mt Zion Books, ISBN 0974607622
  294. ^ The Sixteen Largest American Slaveholders from 1860 Slave Census Schedules Archived 2013-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Transcribed by Tom Blake, April to July 2001, (updated October, 2001 and December 2004 – now includes 19 holders)
  295. ^ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850". FamilySearch. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  296. .
  297. ^ "Slavery at Popes Creek Plantation", George Washington Birthplace National Monument, National Park Service, accessed April 15, 2009
  298. ^ "The Net Worth of the American Presidents: Washington to Trump". 24/7 Wall St. 247wallst.com. 10 November 2016. Archived from the original on 10 April 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  299. ^ "Martha Washington & Slavery". George Washington's Mount Vernon: Digital Encyclopedia. Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. 2015. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  300. .
  301. ^ Henningson, Trip. "James Moore Wayne". Princeton and Slavery. Princeton University. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  302. ^ McKiven, Henry M. Jr. (30 September 2014). "Thomas Hill Watts (1863–65)". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Foundation. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  303. ^ National Archives of Scotland website feature – Slavery, freedom or perpetual servitude? – the Joseph Knight case Retrieved May 2012
  304. ^ Fingard, Judith (1979–2016). "Wenman, Richard". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  305. ^ "The Liberation of Jane Johnson", One Book, One Philadelphia, story behind The Price of a Child, The Library Company of Philadelphia, accessed 2 March 2014
  306. ^ Bosman, Julie (18 September 2013). "Professor Says He Has Solved a Mystery Over a Slave's Novel". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  307. ^ Vaughan, Dorothy Mansfield (26 February 1964). "This Was a Man: A Biography of General William Whipple". New Hampshire: The National Society of The Colonial Dames in the State of New Hampshire. Archived from the original on 18 January 2003. Retrieved 18 January 2003.
  308. .
  309. ^ Burley, David G. (1979–2016). "Whyte, James Matthew". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  310. ^ Great Britain Committee on Slavery (1833), "Select Committee on the Extinction of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, Report", J. Haddon.
  311. ^ Knowlton, Steven. "LibGuides: African American Studies: Slavery at Princeton". libguides.princeton.edu. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  312. ^ Manegold (January 18, 2010), New England's scarlet 'S' for slavery; Manegold (2010), Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North, 41–42 Harper (2003), Slavery in Massachusetts; Bremer (2003), p. 314
  313. ^ Jon Butler, Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776, p. 38, 2000
  314. ^ S 1539 Will of Wynflæd, circa AD 950 (11th-century copy, BL Cotton Charters viii. 38)
  315. ^ Philip D. Morgan, "Interracial Sex in the Chesapeake", in Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory and Civic Culture, Eds. J.E. Lewis and P.S. Onuf. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 55–60.
  316. ^  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Yancey, William Lowndes". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 902.
  317. .
  318. ^ Wiseman, Maury. "David Levy Yulee: Conflict and Continuity in Social Memory". Jacksonville University. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  319. ^ Flint, Richard; Flint, Shirley Cushing. "Juan de Zaldívar". Office of the State Historia, Commission of Public Records, State Records Center and Archives. Retrieved 29 August 2015.