American Slave Owners

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American slave owners or slaveholders were owners of slaves in the United States which typically worked either as agriculture laborers or house servants. The practice was common until its abolition in 1865 with the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

For the time being, we are using this as the Slavery Plantation umbrella or portal.
Once the USA Black Heritage Portal is complete it will be appropriate place to organize everything.

List of notable slave owners

For a complete list, please see: American slave owners Project Profiles.

• George Washington. 1st President of the United States of America.
• Benjamin Franklin
• Henry Lauren's

List of the largest American slave owners

The list below is compiled from the 1860 United States Slave Census Schedule.

1. Col. Joshua John Ward of Georgetown, South Carolina: 1,130 slaves.
2. Dr. Stephen Duncan of Issaquena, Mississippi: 858 slaves.
3. John Burneside of Ascension, Louisiana: 753 slaves; Saint James: 187 slaves. Sugar plantations.
4. Meredith Calhoun of Rapides, Louisiana: 709 slaves. Sugar and cotton plantations.
5. William Aiken of Colleton, South Carolina: 700 slaves.
6. Gov. John L. Manning of Ascension, Louisiana: 670 slaves. Sugar.
7. Col. Joseph A. S. Acklen of West Feliciana, Louisiana: 659 slaves. 6 cotton plantations.
8. Gov. Robert Francis Withers Allston of Georgetown, South Carolina: 631 slaves.
9. Joseph Blake of Beaufort, South Carolina: 575 slaves.
10. John Robinson of Madison, Mississippi: 550 slaves.
11. Jerrett Brown of Sumter, Alabama: 540 slaves.
12. Arthur Blake of Charleston, South Carolina: 538 slaves.
13. John J. Middleton of Beaufort, South Carolina: 530 slaves.
14. Elisha Worthington of Chicot, Arkansas: 529 slaves.
15. Daniel Blake of Colleton, South Carolina: 527 slaves.
16. J. C. Jenkins of Wilkinson, Mississippi: 523 slaves.
17. J. Harleston Read of Georgetown, South Carolina: 511 slaves.
18. John Butler of McIntosh, Georgia: 505 slaves.
19. Charles Heyward of Colleton, South Carolina: 491 slaves.
20. Alfred V. Davis, Concordia, Louisiana: 500+ slaves. 4 Cotton plantations.
21. O. J. Morgan, Carroll, Louisiana: 500+ slaves. 4 Cotton plantations.
22. Levin R. Marshall, Concordia (2), Louisiana: 248 slaves. Madison (1), 236 slaves. Cotton.
23. D. F. Kenner, Ascension, Louisiana: 473 slaves. Sugar.
24. R. R. Barrow, Lafourche, Louisiana: 74 slaves; Terrebonne: 399 slaves. Sugar.
25. Mrs. Mary C. Stirling/Sterling, Pointe Coupee (2), Louisiana: 338 slaves. Sugar. West Feliciana: 127 slaves. Cotton.

Other Geni Projects

• Black Washingtons of Pope's Creek Plantation, Virginia
• White and Black Jeffersons
• Somerset Place Plantation, North Carolina
• Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation

Sub-Project

Slaves freed in America before the 14th Amendment of the Constitution

Also see

• American Civil War
• American slave rebellions
• American abolitionist movement

External links

• 9 of the Biggest Slave Owners in American History
• Largest US County Slaveholders in 1860
• Wikipedia - List of slave owners
• Standing in Way of Alabama Walmart: Slave Graves
• The Large Slaveholders of Louisiana-1860 By Joseph Karl Menn, p. 99
• Plantation-owners Biographies
• SlaveVoyages: Enslaver Database - Understanding the Database
• Records from the Prince William County Court Minute & Order Books < PDF >