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James G. Birney (1792–1857), an attorney and planter who freed his slaves and became an abolitionist. [41] James Blair (c. 1788 –1841), British MP who owned sugar plantations in Demerara. [42] Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), wealthy slave owner who became a Latin American independence leader and eventually an abolitionist.
Plantation owners in Virginia became wealthy during the eighteenth century, as well as members of a new planter aristocracy, by growing tobacco and employing unpaid enslaved people to perform this and other agricultural and domestic labor. [12] [13] The planters were far outnumbered by indentured servants, slaves, and poor white people. [10]
Probably late 1820s to mid-1850s. Thomas McCargo, also styled Thos. M'Cargo, (c. 1790 – after 1854) was a 19th-century American slave trader who worked in Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana. He is best remembered today for being one of the slave traders aboard the Creole, which was a coastwise slave ship that was commandeered by ...
Anthony Johnson (colonist) An African man indentured in Maryland who amassed sizable landholding and had indentured servants and enslaved people in the 1600s. Anthony Johnson (c. 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan-born man who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom ...
Beaver Creek Plantation, under the ownership of George Hairston, was a large slave-holding tobacco plantation and the center of an empire in tobacco-growing and slave-trading built by the Hairston family, Scottish emigrants to Pennsylvania in the early 18th century. Located just outside today's Martinsville, Virginia, the plantation thrived in ...
t. e. John Casor (surname also recorded as Cazara and Corsala), [1] a servant in Northampton County in the Colony of Virginia, in 1655 became one of the first people of African descent in the Thirteen Colonies to be enslaved for life as a result of a civil suit. In 1662, the Virginia Colony passed a law incorporating the principle of partus ...
Indentured servitude in continental North America began in the Colony of Virginia in 1609. [1] Initially created as means of funding voyages for European workers to the New World, the institution dwindled over time as the labor force was replaced with enslaved Africans. Servitude became a central institution in the economy and society of many ...
Occupation. Slave trader. Spouse. Martha Franklin. . (m. 1831) . John Armfield (1797–1871) was an American slave trader. He was the co-founder of Franklin & Armfield, "the largest slave trading firm" in the United States. [1] He was also the developer of Beersheba Springs, Tennessee, and a co-founder of Sewanee: The University of the South.