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

• Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Self-proclaimed Caliph of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
• Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Latin American explorer
• Hayreddin Barbarossa
• Judah Benjamin, Secretary of State for CSA and U.S. senator
• Thomas Hart Benton, American Senator^[1][2]
• John M. Berrien, U.S. senator
• 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]
• John C. Breckinridge, U.S. Vice President and Secretary of War (CSA)
• Brennus (4th century BC)
• Preston Brooks (1819-1857), veteran of the Mexican-American War and U.S. Congressman
• James Brown (1766-1835), U.S. Minister to France, U.S. Senator, and sugar cane planter; some of his slaves were involved in the 1811 German Coast Uprising
• Chang and Eng Bunker
• John Burnside, owner of The Houmas plantation and several others in mid-19th-century southern Louisiana; the scale of his sugar cane operation required, in 1860, the largest slave labor force in the state (750).

Slavery
Contemporary Child labour Conscription Debt Forced marriage Bride-buying Wife selling Forced prostitution Human trafficking Peonage Penal labour Sexual slavery
Historical Antiquity Ancient Rome Babylonia Ancient Greece Topics and practices Atlantic slave trade Middle Passage Arab slave trade Ghilman Mamluk Saqaliba Aztec Blackbirding Byzantine Empire Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United States House slaves Kholop Medieval Europe Panyarring Thrall Serfs History Russia Slave raiding Naval Galley slave Impressment Pirates Shanghaiing Slave ship
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Religion Bible Christianity Catholicism Islam 21st century Judaism
Opposition and resistance Timeline Abolitionism U.K. U.S. Anti-Slavery International Blockade of Africa U.K. U.S. Compensated emancipation Freedman manumission Freedom suit Abolitionists Slave Power Underground Railroad songs Slave rebellion Slave Trade Acts International law 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution
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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
• Daniel Clark (Louisiana politician, 1766–1813)
• 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
• Philip Cook, U.S. congressman and CSA general
• Hernán Cortés

D

• Jefferson Davis (1808–1889), President of the C.S.A.
• Demosthenes
• Mrs. Georges Deslondes & Mrs. Jacques Deslondes, widows and owners of mulatto Charles Deslondes, the leader of the 1811 German Coast Uprising
• John Dovaston, 18th-century British sugar planter, botanist, astronomer, natural historian
• Stephen Duncan (1787–1867), doctor from Pennsylvania who became the wealthiest Southern cotton planter before the American Civil War, with 14 plantations; a founder of the Mississippi Colonization Society, modeled on the American Colonization Society

E

• William Ellison, an American slave, then a slave owner.
• Edwin Epps, owner of Twelve Years a Slave author Solomon Northup for 10 years.

F

• Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930), first female U.S. Senator and oldest Senator to be sworn in (age 87, served one day in 1922)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), American statesman and philosopher
• Nathan Forrest (1821–1877), Confederate general

G

• Ghezo
• Sir John Gladstone (1764–1851), British politician
• Ulysses Grant (1822–1885), 18th President of the U.S.

H

• Hadrian, Roman emperor
• James H. Hammond (1807-1864), U.S. Senator, state governor
• Wade Hampton I (c1752-1835), American general, Congressman, and planter
• Wade Hampton II (1791-1858), American soldier and planter, with land holdings in three states
• Wade Hampton III (1818-1902), U.S. Senator, state governor, Confederate major general, and planter
• John Hancock (1737-1793), American statesman
• Hannibal
• William Harrison (1773–1841), 9th President of the U.S.
• Christopher Helme
• Patrick Henry (1736-1799), American statesman and orator
• Thomas Heyward, Jr., S.C. circuit court judge, planter, and signer of the US Declaration of Independence
• Arthur William Hodge (1763-1811), British Virgin Islands planter executed for the murder of a slave
• Horace, Roman poet
• Sam Houston (1793-1863), 7th Governor of Texas, U.S. Senator, President of the Republic of Texas, 7th Governor of Tennessee
• Hjörleifr Hróðmarsson
• Eppa Hunton, U.S. Senator from Virginia, Confederate Army officer

I

• Pope Innocent VIII
• Benjamin Imlay

J

• Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), 7th President of the U.S.
• John Jay (1745–1829), 1st Chief Justice of the U.S.
• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), 3rd President of the U.S.
• Andrew Johnson (1808–1875), 17th President of the U.S.
• Anthony Johnson, black slaveholder in colonial Virginia

L

• Richard Lee (1761–1827), American politician
• Robert Lee (1807-1870), Confederate general
• Domitia Lepida, female of the Roman imperial dynasty
• Mike Lavarnway (1774–1809), American slave owner
• William Lowndes (1782–1822), American politician

M

• James Madison (1751–1836), 4th President of the U.S.
• Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480–1521), Portuguese navigator
• William Mahone
• Yaqub al-Mansur
• Robert Mills (1809-1888), largest slave holder in antebellum Texas
• James Monroe (1758–1831), 5th President of the U.S.
• Montezuma II (c. 1480-1520), last Aztec emperor of Mexico
• Jackson Morton (1794–1874), American politician
• Moses
• Muhammad^[7]

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 Polk (1795–1849), 11th President of the U.S.
• 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 (1753–1813), American statesman
• John Randolph (1773–1833), American statesman

S

• Ismail Ibn Sharif
• Alexander Stephens (1812–1883), Vice President of the C.S.A.
• Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman Consul and Dictator

T

• Lawrence Taliaferro, played a role in the Dred Scott decision in the United States
• Roger Taney (1777–1864), 5th Chief Justice of the U.S.
• Zachary Taylor (1784–1850), 12th President of the U.S.
• François Tayon, defendant in an 1805 lawsuit in the Louisiana Territory by Marguerite Scypion, a part-Natchez slave
• Tegbessou
• Edward Telfair (1735–1807), 19th Governor of Georgia
• Theodoros, Emperor of Abyssinia
• Tiberius
• Madam Tinubu
• Tippu Tip
• Tiradentes
• George Trenholm (1807–1876), American financier
• François Trépagnier, one of two planters killed in the 1811 German Coast Uprising
• Homaidan Al-Turki
• John Tyler (1790–1862), 10th President of the U.S.

U

• Ursuline nuns of New Orleans - bought smuggled slaves from Pierre Lafitte

V

• Martin Van Buren (1782–1862), 8th President of the United States

W

• Joshua John Ward (1800–1853), Lt. Governor of South Carolina and "the king of the rice planters;" in 1860 he was the largest slave holder in the United States (1,130 slaves).
• George Washington (1732–1799), 1st President of the U.S.
• Martha Washington (1731–1802), 1st U.S. First Lady
• Thomas Watts (1819–1892), 18th Governor of Alabama
• John Wedderburn of Ballendean, known for being the defendant in a Freedom suit brought by Joseph Knight
• John Hill Wheeler, U.S. Cabinet official and North Carolina planter, known for two female slaves who escaped his domain: Jane Johnson & Hannah Bond

See also

• List of slaves
• List of Presidents of the United States who owned slaves

References