List of slave owners
The following is a list of slave owners, for which there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name.
A
- William Aiken (1779–1831), founder and president of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company
- William Aiken Jr. (1806–1887), the 61st Governor of South Carolina, who also served in the state legislature and in the U.S. House of Representatives
- Gnaeus Julius Agricola (AD 40–93), Roman general
- Aleijadinho (1730/1738–1814)
- Askia Mohammad I (1493–1528), also known as Askia the Great, ruler of the Songhai Empire
- Atahualpa, the last Inca Emperor (1502–1533)
- David Rice Atchison (1807–1883), American politician from Missouri who served in the U.S. Senate
B
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (1971–2019), self-proclaimed Caliph of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475–1519), Spanish explorer and conquistador
- Elizabeth Swain Bannister (c. 1785–1828), free woman of colour who owned 76 slaves in Berbice.[1]
- Hayreddin Barbarossa (1478–1546)
- Robert Ruffin Barrow (1798–1875), American plantation owner who owned more than 450 slaves and a dozen plantations
- Zabeau Bellanton (fl. 1782), Afro-French slave trader
- Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884), Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America and a U.S. Senator from Louisiana
- Thomas H. Benton (1782–1858), American senator from Missouri[2][3]
- John M. Berrien (1781–1856), U.S. Senator from Georgia
- William Wyatt Bibb (1781–1821), U.S. Congressman and 1st Governor of Alabama
- James Blair (c. 1788–1841), British MP who owned sugar plantations in Demerara[4]
- Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), Latin American independence leader
- Shadrach Bond (1773–1832), 1st Governor of Illinois
- James Bowie (c. 1796–1836), of Bowie knife and Battle of the Alamo fame
- John C. Breckinridge (1821–1875), 14th Vice President of the United States and Confederate Secretary of War
- Brennus, a Gallic chieftain who led a sack of Rome in 387 BC
- Simone Brocard (fl. 1784), Afro-French slave trader
- Preston Brooks (1819–1857), veteran of the Mexican–American War and U.S. Congressman from South Carolina
- James Brown (1766–1835), U.S. Minister to France, U.S. Senator, and sugarcane planter, some of whose slaves were involved in the 1811 German Coast uprising in what is now Louisiana
- Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874)
- Pierce Butler (1744–1822)[5]
C
- Augustus Caesar (63 BC–14 AD), Roman emperor
- Julius Caesar (100–44 BC), Roman dictator
- John C. Calhoun (1782–1850), 7th Vice President of the United States
- Caligula (AD 12–41), Roman emperor
- Carlos Manuel de Cespedes (1819–1874), hero of Cuban independence
- Landon Carter (1710–1778), Virginia planter
- Robert "King" Carter (1663–1732), Virginia landowner and acting governor of Virginia
- Girolamo Cassar (c. 1520 – c. 1592), Maltese architect who owned at least two slaves[6]
- Cato the Elder (234–149 BC), Roman statesman
- Auguste Chouteau (1749/1750–1829), co-founder of the city of St. Louis, Missouri
- Pierre Chouteau (1758–1849), half-brother of Auguste Chouteau and defendant in a freedom suit by Marguerite Scypion
- Cicero (106–43 BC), Roman statesman and philosopher
- Daniel Clark (1766–1813), Louisiana politician
- William Clark (1770–1838), American explorer and territorial governor famed for leading the Lewis and Clark expedition[7]
- Claudius (10 BC–54 AD), Roman emperor
- Henry Clay (1777–1852), United States Secretary of State and Speaker of the House[8]
- Howell Cobb (1815–1868), U.S. Congressman, Secretary of the Treasury, 19th Speaker of the House, and 40th Governor of Georgia
- Edward Coles (1786–1868), 2nd Governor of Illinois
- Amaryllis Collymore (1745–1828), Barbadian slave and later slave owner and planter
- Alfred H. Colquitt (1824–1894), U.S. Congressman, 49th Governor of Georgia, and Confederate Army Major General
- Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)
- Philip Cook (1817–1894), U.S. Congressman and Confederate general
- Samuel Cooper (1798–1876), United States Army staff officer and Confederate general
- Hernán Cortés (1485–1547)
- George W. Crawford (1798–1872), 21st U.S. Secretary of War, 38th Governor of Georgia, and U.S. Congressman
D
- David (c. 1000 BC), ancient King of Israel
- Jefferson Davis (1807–1889), President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War
- Joseph Davis (1784–1870), eldest brother of Jefferson Davis and one of the wealthiest antebellum planters in Mississippi
- Demosthenes (384–322 BC), Athenian statesman and orator
- Jean Noël Destréhan (1754–1823), Louisiana plantation owner at whose plantation one of the tribunals was held following the 1811 German Coast Uprising
- Henry Dodge (1782–1867), 1st and 4th Governor of the Wisconsin Territory
- Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861), U.S. Senator from Illinois and 1860 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate
- Stephen Duncan (1787–1867), doctor from Pennsylvania who became the wealthiest Southern cotton planter before the American Civil War, with 14 plantations
E
- Peter Early (1773–1818), U.S. Congressman and 28th Governor of Georgia
- Ninian Edwards (1775–1833), Governor of Illinois Territory and 3rd Governor of Illinois
- William Ellison (1790–1861), an American slave and later a slave owner
- Edwin Epps, owner of Solomon Northup, author ofTwelve Years a Slave, for 10 years
- Erchinoald, mayor of the palace of Neustria and owner of Balthild, whom he introduced to Clovis II. Clovis made her his wife and queen consort.
F
- Mary Faber (1798–fl. 1857), African slave trader
- Peter Faneuil (1700-1743), Colonial American slave trader and owner. Boston's Faneuil Hall is named after him.
- Rebecca L. Felton (1835–1930), first female U.S. Senator and oldest Senator to be sworn in (at the age of 87; served one day in 1922)
- Mariana Franko (d. after 1777), free colored in Curaçao in the Dutch West Indies. She is known as the central figure in a famous court case.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), American statesman and philosopher
- Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877), Confederate general
- John Forsyth (1780–1841), U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, 13th U.S. Secretary of State, and 33rd Governor of Georgia who was involved with United States v. The Amistad
- Thomas Foster, Mississippi planter who owned Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori
G
- Ana Gallum, also called Nansi Wiggins (fl. 1811), was an African Senegalese slave who was freed and married the white Florida planter Don Joseph "Job" Wiggins, in 1801 succeeding in having his will, leaving her his plantation and slaves, recognized as legal.[9]
- Horatio Gates (1727–1806), American general during the American Revolutionary War
- Edward James Gay, U.S. Congressional representative from Louisiana
- Ghezo, King of the Dahomey in present-day Benin from 1818 to 1858
- Sir John Gladstone (1764–1851), British politician
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), Union general, 18th President of the United States
H
- Hadrian (76–138 AD), Roman emperor
- James Henry Hammond (1807–1864), U.S. Senator and state governor
- Wade Hampton I (c. 1752 – 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 lieutenant general, and planter
- John Hancock (1737–1793), American statesman
- Hannibal (247 – 183/181 BC)
- Benjamin Harrison IV (1693–1745), American planter and politician
- Benjamin Harrison V (1726–1791), American politician, United States Declaration of Independence signatory
- William Henry Harrison (1773–1841), 9th President of the United States
- Christopher Helme (1603–1650)
- Patrick Henry (1736–1799), American statesman and orator
- Thomas Heyward Jr. (1746–1809), South Carolina circuit court judge, planter, and signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
- George Hibbert (1757–1837), English merchant, politician, and ship-owner
- Thomas Hibbert (1710–1780), English merchant and plantation and slave-owner
- Arthur William Hodge (1763–1811), British Virgin Islands planter who was executed for the murder of a slave
- Eufrosina Hinard (b. 1777), businesswoman and slaveowner
- Thomas C. Hindman (1828–1868), American politician, Confederate general, and planter
- Horace (65–8 BC), Roman poet
- Sam Houston (1793–1863), U.S. Senator, President of the Republic of Texas, 6th Governor of Tennessee, and 7th Governor of Texas
- Hjörleifr Hróðmarsson, an early settler of Iceland
- Eppa Hunton, U.S. Senator from Virginia and a Confederate officer
J
- Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), 7th President of the United States
- William James (1791–1861), English Radical politician[10]
- John Jay (1745–1829), 1st Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), 3rd President of the United States
- Anna Jens (1766–1815), Dutch planter
- Andrew Johnson (1808–1875), 17th President of the United States
- Anthony Johnson, black slaveholder in colonial Virginia
- Richard Mentor Johnson (1780–1850), 9th Vice President of the United States
- Robert W. Johnson (1814–1879), American politician
K
- Francis Scott Key (1779–1843), author of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- William R. King (1786–1853), 13th Vice President of the United States
- Anna Kingsley (1793–1870), slave and then a planter and slave owner
L
- James Ladson (1753–1812), lieutenant governor of South Carolina
- James H. Ladson (1795–1868), businessman
- Henry Laurens (1724–1792), 5th President of the Continental Congress
- Fenda Lawrence, 18th-century African slave trader
- Delphine LaLaurie (c. 1780–1849), alleged serial killer
- John Lamont (1782–1850), Scottish emigrant and sugar planter in Trinidad
- Marie Laveau (1801–1881), American voodoo practitioner.[11]
- Richard Bland Lee (1761–1827), American politician
- William Lenoir (1751–1839) American Revolutionary War officer and prominent statesman in late 18th-century and early 19th-century North Carolina.
- William Ballard Lenoir (1775–1852) active in business and in Tennessee politics, TN state House of Representative from 1815 to 1817
- Domitia Lepida Minor, female of the Roman imperial dynasty
- Edward Long (1734–1813), English colonial administrator and planter in Jamaica
- William Lowndes (1782–1822), American politician
M
- Majid bin Said of Zanzibar (1837–1870)
- Thuwaini bin Said, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1821–1866)
- James Madison (1751–1836), 4th President of the United States
- James Madison Sr. (1723–1801), Father of President James Madison
- Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480–1521), Portuguese navigator
- William Mahone (1826–1895), Confederate general and U.S. Senator from Virginia
- John Lawrence Manning (1816–1889), 65th Governor of South Carolina
- John Marshall (1755–1835), 4th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Yaqub al-Mansur (1160–1199)
- George Mason (1725–1792), Virginia planter, politician, and delegate to the US Constitutional Convention of 1787
- James McGill, founder of McGill University in Montreal, Canada[12]
- Henry Middleton (1717–1784), 2nd President of the Continental Congress
- John Milledge (1757–1818), U.S. Congressman and 26th Governor of Georgia
- Muhammad (Arabic: مُحَمَّد, pronounced [muħammad]; c. 570 CE – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.
- Robert Milligan, (1746–1809) Scottish merchant and ship-owner
- James Monroe (1758–1831), 5th President of the United States
- Montezuma II (c. 1480–1520), the last Aztec emperor
- Frank A. Montgomery (1830–1903), American politician and Confederate cavalry officer[13]
- Jackson Morton (1794–1874), American politician
- Hercules Mulligan (1740–1825), tailor and spy during the American Revolutionary War
- Mansa Musa (c.1280–c.1337), ruler of the Mali Empire
N
- Naaman, Syrian general in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)
- Nero (37–68 AD), Roman emperor
- John Newton (1725–1807), British slave trader and later abolitionist
- Nicias (470–413 BC), Athenian politician and general
O
- Susannah Ostrehan (d. 1809), Barbadian ex-slave and businesswoman
- James Owen (1784–1865), American politician, planter, major-general and businessman
P
- Colonel John Page (Middle Plantation)
- Suzanne Amomba Paillé (1673-1683 – 1755) African-Guianan slave, slave owner, planter and philatropist
- Charles Nicholas Pallmer (1772–1848) British Member of Parliament and plantation owner
- William Penn (1644-1718), founder of Pennsylvania
- Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (1737–1808)
- John J. Pettus (1813–1867), 20th and 23rd Governor of Mississippi
- Philemon (? – 68), bishop of Gaza and one of the Seventy Disciples
- Philip III of Macedon (359–317 BC), king of Macedonia
- Plato, (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC), Athenian philosopher
- Susanna du Plessis (1739 – 1795) Dutch planter
- Vedius Pollio
- James K. Polk (1795–1849), 11th President of the United States
- Leonidas Polk (1806–1864), planter, Episcopal bishop, and Confederate general
- Pompey (106–48 BC)
- Rachael Pringle Polgreen (1753–1791) Afro-Barbadian hotelier and brothel owner.
- Ptolemy I of Egypt
- Ptolemy II of Egypt (309–246 BC)
- Ptolemy III of Egypt
- Ptolemy IV of Egypt
- Ptolemy V of Egypt
- Ptolemy VI of Egypt (185–145 BC)
- Ptolemy VII of Egypt
- Ptolemy VIII of Egypt (182–116 BC)
- Ptolemy IX of Egypt (143/142 – 81 BC)
- Ptolemy X of Egypt (117–51 BC)
- Ptolemy XI of Egypt
- Ptolemy XII of Egypt
- Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (62/61 – 47 BC)
- Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (60/59 – 44 BC)
- Ptolemy of Mauretania (13/9 BC – 40 AD)
Q
- John A. Quitman (1798–1858), American politician
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
- Stedman Rawlins (c. 1784–1830), English Governor of Saint Christopher (Saint Kitts) and plantation owner
- John Reynolds (1788–1865), 4th Governor of Illinois
- Isaac Ross (1760–1836), Mississippi planter who stipulated in his will that his slaves be freed and moved to Africa
- Anne Rossignol (1730–1810), Afro-French slave trader
- John Rutledge (1739–1800), 2nd Chief Justice of the United States
S
- Elisabeth Samson (1715-1771), Surinamese planter
- Ana Joaquina dos Santos e Silva (1788–1859), Angolan Afro-Portuguese slave trader
- William K. Sebastian (1812–1865), American politician
- Sally Seymour (died 1824), American pastry chef and restaurateur
- Ismail Ibn Sharif (1632–1727)
- Benjamin Smith (1717–1770), slave trader
- Solomon (990–931 BC), ancient King of Israel
- D. H. Starbuck (1818–1887), North Carolina lawyer, judge, and political figure who served as United States Attorney for the entire state
- Peter Burwell Starke (1813–1888), politician and Confederate general
- Alexander H. Stephens (1812–1883), Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War
- J. E. B. Stuart (1833–1864), Confederate general
- Sulla (138–78 BC), Roman consul and dictator
- Mary Surratt (1823–1865), alleged conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government
T
- Clemente Tabone (c. 1575 – 1665), Maltese landowner who owned at least two slaves[14]
- Lawrence Taliaferro (1794–1871), played a role in the Dred Scott decision in the United States
- Roger Taney (1777–1864), 5th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Zachary Taylor (1784–1850), 12th President of the United States
- Tegbessou King of the Kingdom of Dahomey from 1740 until 1774.
- Edward Telfair (1735–1807), 19th Governor of Georgia
- Tewodros I, Emperor of Abyssinia
- George Henry Thomas, Union General in the American Civil War
- Tiberius (42 BC – 37 AD) Roman emperor
- Madam Tinubu (1810–1887)
- Tippu Tip (1832–1905)
- Tiradentes (1746–1792)
- Alex Tizon (1959–2017)
- Robert Toombs (1810–1885), U.S. Congressman, 1st Confederate Secretary of State, and brigadier general in the Confederate Army
- George Trenholm (1807–1876), American financier
- George Troup (1780–1856), U.S. Congressman and 32nd Governor of Georgia
- Homaidan Al-Turki
- John Tyler (1790–1862), 10th President of the United States
V
- Martin Van Buren (1782–1862), 8th President of the United States
- Jacques Villeré (1761–1830), Governor of Louisiana
- Elisabeth Dieudonné Vincent (1798–1883) free colored businesswoman[15]
- William Vogel (1770–1836), State Senator of Virginia
W
- Joshua John Ward (1800–1853), Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina and "the king of the rice planters", whose estate was once the largest slaveholder in the United States (1,130 slaves)
- Robert Wash (1790-1856), Missouri Supreme Court Justice
- Augustine Washington (1694–1743), Father of George Washington
- George Washington (1732–1799), 1st President of the United States
- 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 H. Watts (1819–1892), 18th Governor of Alabama
- John Wedderburn of Ballendean (1729–1803), known for being the defendant in a freedom suit brought by Joseph Knight
- John H. Wheeler (1806–1882), U.S. Cabinet official and North Carolina planter known for two female slaves who escaped his domain, Jane Johnson and Hannah Bond
- William Whipple (1730–1785), American general and politician, United States Declaration of Independence signatory
- George Whitefield (1714–1770), English Methodist preacher
- John Witherspoon (1723–1794), Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, Founding Father of the United States, president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University)
- John Winthrop (1587/88–1649), one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the 3rd Governor of Massachusetts
- Joseph Wragg (1698–1751), slave trader
- Wynflaed, a woman in Anglo-Saxon England, who left Aelfsige, a male cook, to her granddaughter Eadgifu in her will.[16]
- George Wythe (1726–1807), American legal scholar, United States Declaration of Independence signatory
Y
- Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, the first native-born Canadian to be declared a saint.[17]
See also
- List of Presidents of the United States who owned slaves
- List of slaves
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