List of slave owners

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Contents :

• Top
• 0–9
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

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^[1][2]
• 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^[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).

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^[5]
• Claudius, Roman emperor
• Henry Clay, United States Secretary of State and Speaker of the House^[6]
• 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.
• 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 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
• 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
• 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

• 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
• Robert Johnson (1814–1879), American politician

L

• Delphine LaLaurie (c. 1780-1849), alleged serial killer
• 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
• William Mahone, Confederate general and U.S. Senator from Virginia
• Yaqub al-Mansur
• 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
• 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

N

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

P

• 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.
• 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

S

• William Sebastian (1812–1865), American politician
• Ismail Ibn Sharif
• 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.

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

See also

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

References

1. JSTOR: The American Historical Review, retrieved 13 January 2013
2. The Ozarks: Land and Life, retrieved 13 January 2013
3. "James Blair: Profile & Legacies Summary". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. UCL Department of History 2014. 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
4. "PBS "Finding Your "Roots"". Detroit News. 22 September 2014.
5. "Lewis and Clark . Inside the Corps . The Corps . York - PBS". pbs.org.
6. "History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places - Smithsonian". smithsonianmag.com.