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List of slave owners

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This list includes notable individuals for which there is a consensus of evidence of slave ownership.

Contents

A

  • 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
  • John M. Berrien, U.S. senator
  • William Wyatt Bibb (1781-1821), U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, and 1st Governor of Alabama
  • James Blair (c.1788–1841), British MP who owned sugar plantations in Demerara
  • Simon Bolivar, Latin American independence leader
  • Burwell Boykin, American ancestor of Anderson Cooper
  • 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).
  • Pierce Butler

    • 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 and philosopher
  • 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
  • Claudius, Roman emperor
  • Henry Clay, United States Secretary of State and Speaker of the House
  • Howell Cobb (1815-1868), U.S. Congressman, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, President of the Confederates States Congress, 19th Speaker of the House, 40th Governor of Georgia
  • Alfred H. Colquitt (1824-1894), U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, 49th Governor of Georgia, and Confederate Major General
  • Christopher Columbus
  • Philip Cook, U.S. congressman and CSA general
  • Hernán Cortés
  • George W. Crawford (1798-1872), 21st U.S. Secretary of War, 38th Governor of Georgia, and U.S. Congressman.

    • D

  • Jefferson Davis (1808–1889), President of the C.S.A.
  • Joseph Emory Davis (1784-1870), eldest brother of Jefferson Davis and one of the wealthiest antebellum planters in Mississippi
  • 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

  • Peter Early (1773-1818), U.S. Congressman and 28th Governor of Georgia.
  • William Ellison, an American slave, then a slave owner.
  • Edwin Epps, owner of Solomon Northup, author ofTwelve Years a Slave, 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
  • John Forsyth (1780-1841), U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, 13th U.S. Secretary of State, involved with the United States v. The Amistad, and 33rd Governor of Georgia

    • G

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

    • H

  • Hadrian, Roman emperor
  • Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757–1804), 1st U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, Senior Officer of the Continental Army, N. Y. delegate to the United States in General Congress Assembled
  • 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. A.
  • Christopher Helme
  • Patrick Henry (1736-1799), American statesman and orator
  • Thomas Heyward, Jr., S. C. circuit court judge, planter, and signer of the U. S. Declaration of Independence
  • Arthur William Hodge (1763-1811), British Virgin Islands planter executed for the murder of a slave
  • Thomas C. Hindman (1828-1868), American politician, Confederate general, and planter
  • 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

  • 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
  • Richard Mentor Johnson (1780–1850), 9th Vice President of the United States
  • Robert Johnson (1814–1879), American politician

    • K

  • William R. King (1786-1853), 13th Vice President of the United States

    • L

  • Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War
  • Delphine LaLaurie (c. 1780-1849), alleged serial killer
  • John Lamont (1782–1850), Scottish emigrant, sugar planter in Trinidad
  • Richard Bland Lee (1761–1827), American politician
  • Robert E. 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
  • Craig Mangelsdorff, Kirrawee
  • William Mahone, Confederate general and U.S. Senator from Virginia
  • William McNish, Georgia planter, Gatehouse Estate, Camden county, Georgia, at the time of the War of 1812
  • Yaqub al-Mansur
  • George Mason (1725-1792), Virginia planter, politician, and a Delegate to the US Constitutional Convention of 1787
  • John Milledge (1757-1818), U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, and 26th Governor of Georgia.
  • Robert Mills (1809-1888), largest slave holder in antebellum Texas
  • Robert Milligan, (1746 – 1809) Scottish merchant and ship-owner
  • 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
  • Muhammad, founder of Islam
  • Hercules Mulligan (1740-1825), tailor and spy during the American Revolutionary War

    • N

  • Naaman, Syrian general in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)
  • Nero
  • Nicias
  • Nyberg

    • P

  • Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
  • John J. Pettus (1813–1867), 20th and 23rd Governor of Mississippi
  • Philip III of Macedon, king of Macedonia
  • Plato
  • Vedius Pollio
  • James K. Polk (1795–1849), 11th President of the U.S.
  • Leonidas Polk (1806-1864), planter, Episcopal bishop, and Confederate general
  • 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

  • J. G. M. Ramsey (1797–1884) American historian, physician, planter, and businessman
  • Edmund Randolph (1753–1813), American statesman
  • John Randolph (1773–1833), American statesman
  • Stedman Rawlins (c.1784–1830), English Governor of Saint Christopher (Saint Kitts) and plantation owner

    • S

  • William Sebastian (1812–1865), American politician
  • Ismail Ibn Sharif
  • D. H. Starbuck (1818 - 1887), North Carolina lawyer and political figure who served as United States Attorney for the entire state, and then for the Western District of North Carolina after the state was divided into two districts, delegate from Forsyth County to the state constitutional conventions of 1861 and 1865, and elected state superior court judge.
  • Peter Starke (1813–1888), politician and Confederate general
  • Alexander Stephens (1812–1883), Vice-President of the C.S.
  • 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
  • Robert Toombs (1810-1885), U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, 1st C.S.A. Secretary of State, and Brigadier general in the C.S.A. Army
  • George Trenholm (1807–1876), American financier
  • François Trépagnier, one of two planters killed in the 1811 German Coast Uprising
  • George Troup (1780-1856), U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, and 32nd Governor of Georgia
  • Homaidan Al-Turki
  • John Tyler (1790–1862), 10th President of the U.S.
  • King Tut

    • V

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

    • W

  • George Walton (1749–1804), Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator, and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence from Georgia.
  • Joshua John Ward (1800–1853), Lt. Governor of South Carolina and "the king of the rice planters;" in 1860 his estate 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
  • James Moore Wayne (1790–1867), U.S. Congressman and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
  • 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 and Hannah Bond
  • George Whitfield, English Methodist preacher

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