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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
Slave quarters at Horton Grove for the Stagville plantation, built by slaves and occupied until the 1870s. Slavery was legally practiced in the Province of North Carolina and the state of North Carolina until January 1, 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
North Carolina plantation were identified by name, beginning in the 17th century. The names of families or nearby rivers or other features were used. The names assisted the owners and local record keepers in keeping track of specific parcels of land. In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records.
He became known as one of the largest slave owners in North Carolina and the wealthiest free black resident. Even though he himself was born a slave, Stanly had used his intelligence and family ties to become a successful entrepreneur, land developer, and plantation owner.
This is a list of slave traders of the United States, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States, i.e. the buying and selling of human chattel as commodities, primarily African-American people in the Southern United States, from the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 until the defeat of the ...
American owners of slaves. To see a list of slave owners worldwide, visit List of slave owners ... (North Carolina governor) Jeptha Atherton; Henry Atkinson (soldier)
In slave societies, nearly everyone – free and slave – aspired to enter the slaveholding class, and upon occasion some former slaves rose into slaveholders' ranks. Their acceptance was grudging, as they carried the stigma of bondage in their lineage and, in the case of American slavery, color in their skin. [10]
North Carolina's 4th district Dec. 4, 1825 Mar. 2, 1829 Joseph Bryan: Democratic-Republican: Georgia's at-large district Oct. 16, 1803 Dec. 31, 1805 Joseph Hunter Bryan: Democratic-Republican: North Carolina's 2nd district Dec. 3, 1815 Mar. 2, 1819 Nathan Bryan: Democratic-Republican: North Carolina's 10th district Dec. 6, 1795 Jun. 3, 1798 ...