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By 1750, Charleston had become a bustling trade center, the hub of the Atlantic trade for the southern colonies, and the wealthiest and largest city south of Philadelphia. By 1770, it was the fourth largest port in the colonies, after only Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, with a population of 11,000, slightly more than half of that slaves.
Alonzo James White (March 22, 1812 – July 1, 1885) was a 19th-century businessman of Charleston, South Carolina who was known as a "notorious" slave trader [1] and prolific auctioneer and thus oversaw the sales of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of enslaved Americans of African descent in his 30-year career in the American slave trade.
William Ancrum (c. 1722 —February 24, 1808) was a wealthy American merchant, slave trader and indigo planter from Charleston, South Carolina who served in the Third General Assembly during the Revolutionary War (1779—1780).
Gilchrist was born around 1810 in South Carolina. [1] Gilchrist may have been trading as early as 1830, when he would have been about 20 years old, as he placed a newspaper ad in 1840 asserting that he had "for the last ten year had an extensive and large business in trading transactions generally viz: Selling and negociating [] sales of Slaves, Real Estate, Bonds and Mortgages and all kinds ...
Joseph Wragg (1698 – 1751) was a politician and slave trader in the Province of South Carolina. Born Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Wragg immigrated to the American colonies where he became a pioneer in the slave trade. During the 1730s, Wragg was the predominant slave trader in South Carolina.
Oakes was a Yankee by extraction, born in Sangerville, Maine to a colonial-era family with roots in Massachusetts and the District of Maine. [6] Per a genealogy by historian Henry Lebbeus Oak (workshop of Hubert Howe Bancroft), Ziba Oakes was one of three children born to a prosperous merchant named Samuel Oakes (1784–1845) and his wife Mary Burrill (1787–1880), daughter of Ziba Burrill. [6]