List of slave owners
This list includes notable individuals for which there is a consensus of evidence of slave ownership.
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A
- Abraham, Patriarch
- Gilbert André, one of two planters killed during the 1811 German Coast Uprising
- Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general
- Aleijadinho
- Atahualpa, Inca
B
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Latin American explorer
- Hayreddin Barbarossa
- Thomas Hart Benton, American Senator[1][2]
- James Blair (c.1788–1841), British MP who owned sugar plantations in Demerara[3]
- Simon Bolivar, Latin American independence leader
- Burwell Boykin, American ancestor of Anderson Cooper[4]
- Brennus (4th century BC)
- James Brown (Louisiana), U.S. Minister to France and wealthy sugarcane planter; later a Philadelphia resident
- Chang and Eng Bunker
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C
- Augustus Caesar, Roman emperor
- Julius Caesar, Roman dictator
- John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the U.S.
- Caligula, Roman emperor
- Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, hero of Cuban independence
- Landon Carter, Virginia planter
- Cicero, Roman statesman
- Cato the elder, Roman statesman
- Auguste Chouteau, 18th-century co-founder of the city of St. Louis
- Pierre Chouteau, half-brother of Auguste Chouteau & defendant in a freedom suit by Marguerite Scypion
- William Clark, explorer, American territorial governor[5]
- Claudius, Roman emperor
- Henry Clay, United States Secretary of State and Speaker of the House[6]
- Christopher Columbus
- Hernán Cortés
D
- Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy
- Demosthenes
- Mrs. Georges Deslondes & Mrs. Jacques Deslondes, widows and owners of mulatto Charles Deslondes, the leader of the 1811 German Coast Uprising
E
- William Ellison, an American slave, then a slave owner.
F
- Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father; diplomat, inventor.[7]
G
- Ghezo
- Ulysses S. Grant, U.S. President, Civil War general
- Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet (1764–1851), Scottish merchant, philanthropist, Member of Parliament, and the father of the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone[8]
H
- Hadrian, Roman emperor
- Wade Hampton I, S.C. planter and Congressman, officer in the Revolutionary War & the War of 1812; in 1811, was Brigadier-General in the Territory of Orleans and attempted to suppress a large slave revolt with his troops, but the local militias largely handled it. At the time of Hampton's death in 1835, it is said that he owned more than 3,000 slaves.
- Hannibal
- Christopher Helme
- Thomas Heyward, Jr., S.C. circuit court judge, planter, and signer of the US Declaration of Independence
- Arthur William Hodge
- Horace, Roman poet
- Sam Houston, American political and military leader; friend of the Native Americans; the only person in U.S. history to have served as Governor in two states (Tennessee and Texas); and a courageous opponent of the Civil War
- Hjörleifr Hróðmarsson
- Eppa Hunton, U.S. Senator from Virginia, Confederate Army officer
I
- Pope Innocent VIII
- Benjamin Imlay
J
- Andrew Jackson, U.S. President
- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President, author of the Declaration of Independence, outlawed international slave trade
- Anthony Johnson, black slaveholder in colonial Virginia
L
- Domitia Lepida, female of the Roman imperial dynasty
- Richard Bland Lee, Virginia planter
- Robert E. Lee, attended West Point and served in the U.S. Army for many years, including the Mexican-American War; Commanding General of the Confederate States Army
- Meriwether Lewis, American explorer and territorial governor[9]
M
- Ferdinand Magellan, explorer
- William Mahone
- James Madison, U.S. President
- Yaqub al-Mansur
- James Monroe, U.S. President
- Montezuma, Aztec Emperor
- Muhammad[10]
- Moses
N
- Naaman, Syrian general in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)
- Nero
- Nicias
P
- Philemon, saint
- Philip III of Macedon, king of Macedonia
- Plato
- Vedius Pollio
- James K. Polk, U.S. President
- Pompey
- Ptolemy I of Egypt
- Ptolemy II of Egypt
- Ptolemy III of Egypt
- Ptolemy IV of Egypt
- Ptolemy V of Egypt
- Ptolemy VI of Egypt
- Ptolemy VII of Egypt
- Ptolemy VIII of Egypt
- Ptolemy IX of Egypt
- Ptolemy X of Egypt
- Ptolemy XI of Egypt
- Ptolemy XII of Egypt
- Ptolemy XIII of Egypt
- Ptolemy XIV of Egypt
- Ptolemy of Mauretania
R
- Edmund Randolph, first U.S. attorney general.
- John Randolph of Roanoke, planter, U.S. Senator, Minister to Russia
S
- Ismail Ibn Sharif
- Solomon
- Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla, of the Roman imperial dynasty
T
- Lawrence Taliaferro, played a role in the Dred Scott decision in the United States
- Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Zachary Taylor, U.S. President
- François Tayon, defendant in an 1805 lawsuit in the Louisiana Territory by Marguerite Scypion, a part-Natchez slave
- Tegbessou
- Theodoros, Emperor of Abyssinia
- Tiberius
- Madam Tinubu
- Tippu Tip
- Tiradentes
- François Trépagnier, one of two planters killed in the 1811 German Coast Uprising
- Homaidan Al-Turki
- John Tyler, U.S. President
U
- Ursuline nuns of New Orleans - bought smuggled slaves from Pierre Lafitte
W
- George Washington, U.S. President
- Martha Washington, U.S. First Lady
- John Wedderburn of Ballendean, known for being the defendant in a Freedom suit brought by Joseph Knight
- John Hill Wheeler, U.S. Cabinet official & N.C. planter, known for two female slaves who escaped his domain: Jane Johnson & Hannah Bond
See also
References
- ↑ JSTOR: The American Historical Review, retrieved 13 January 2013
- ↑ The Ozarks: Land and Life, retrieved 13 January 2013
- ↑ "James Blair: Profile & Legacies Summary". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. UCL Department of History 2014. 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
- ↑ http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/television/2014/09/22/gates-pbs-genealogy-vance-stephen-king/16073071/
- ↑ http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/york.html
- ↑ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Rescue-of-Henry-Clay.html
- ↑ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1269536/The-Founding-Fathers-and-Slavery
- ↑ "John Gladstone: Profile & Legacies Summary". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. UCL Department of History 2014. 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
- ↑ http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/york.html
- ↑ http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/073-sbt.php#008.073.182