1. A

2. B

3. C

4. D

5. E

6. F

7. G

8. H

9. J

10. K

11. L

12. M

13. N

14. P

15. R

16. S

17. T

18. V

19. W

20. Y

21. See also

22. References

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 the U.S. Congress
• Gnaeus Julius Agricola (AD 40–93), Roman general
• Aleijadinho (1730/1738–1814)
• Atahualpa, the last Inca Emperor (1502–1533)
• David Rice Atchison (1807–1883), American politician known for potentially being Acting President of the United States on March 4, 1849

B

• Amy Babbington Somary (1969-), Husband of Geoffrey "Gorf" Somary and mother of four mentally handicapped children
• Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (1971–), self-proclaimed Caliph of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
• Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475–1519), Spanish explorer and conquistador
• Hayreddin Barbarossa (1478–1546)
• Robert Ruffin Barrow (1798–1875), American plantation owner who owned more than 450 slaves and a dozen plantations
• 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^[1][2]
• 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^[3]
• Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), Latin American independence leader
• Shadrach Bond (1773–1832), 1st Governor of Illinois
• 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
• 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 present-day Louisiana
• Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874)
• Pierce Butler (1744–1822)^[4]

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
• Meredith Calhoun (1805–1869), enslaver and newspaper editor in Grant Parish, Louisiana
• Caligula (AD 12–41), Roman emperor
• Carlos Manuel de Cespedes (1819–1874), hero of Cuban independence
• Landon Carter (1710–1778), Virginia planter
• Girolamo Cassar (c. 1520 – c. 1592), Maltese architect who owned at least two slaves^[5]
• 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^[6]
• Claudius (10 BC–54 AD), Roman emperor
• Henry Clay (1777–1852), United States Secretary of State and Speaker of the House^[7]
• 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
• 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

F

• 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)
• 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

G

• 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 major general, and planter
• John Hancock (1737–1793), American statesman
• Hannibal (247 – 183/181 BC)
• 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
• Arthur William Hodge (1763–1811), British Virgin Islands planter who was executed for the murder of a slave
• 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^[8]
• John Jay (1745–1829), 1st Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), 3rd President of the United States
• 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

L

• 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
• Richard Bland Lee (1761–1827), American politician
• Domitia Lepida, 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
• 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^[9]
• Henry Middleton (1717–1784), 2nd President of the Continental Congress
• John Milledge (1757–1818), U.S. Congressman and 26th Governor of Georgia
• 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^[10]
• Jackson Morton (1794–1874), American politician
• Muhammad (570–632 AD), last prophet in Islam
• Hercules Mulligan (1740–1825), tailor and spy during the American Revolutionary War

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)

P

• Colonel John Page (Middle Plantation)
• 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
• 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)
• 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)

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
• John Richard (1788–1824), 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

S

• William K. Sebastian (1812–1865), American politician
• Ismail Ibn Sharif (1632–1727)
• 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
• 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^[11]
• 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
• William Vogel (1770-1836), State Senator of Virginia

W

• George Walton (1749–1804), Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator, and signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence{{cn|date=October 2018}}
• 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)
• Augustine Washington (1694–1743), Father of George Washington
• 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
• George Whitefield (1714–1770), English Methodist preacher
• John Winthrop (1587/88–1649), one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the 3rd Governor of Massachusetts

Y

• Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, the first native-born Canadian to be declared a saint.^[12]

See also

• List of slaves
• List of Presidents of the United States who owned slaves

References

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