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    African American slave owners within the history of the United States existed in some cities and others as plantation owners in the country. During this...
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    merchant and agent for the slave-trading Royal African Company. Suzanne Amomba Paillé (c. 1673–1755), African-Guianan slave, slave owner and planter. Charles...
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    patriarch' of the first community of Negro property owners in America". In the early 1620s, African slave traders kidnapped the man who would later be known...
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    black history List of slave owners Lists of United States public officials who owned slaves Category:American slave owners Reparations for slavery debate...
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    pre-existing local African slave systems began supplying captives for slave markets outside Africa. Slavery in contemporary Africa is still practised...
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    Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships...
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  • John Carruthers Stanly (category African-American slave owners)
    John Carruthers Stanly (1774–1845) was one of the largest slave owners in North Carolina and the wealthiest free black resident. Stanly was the illegitimate...
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  • William Ellison (category African-American slave owners)
    born April Ellison, was an American cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, and former African-American slave who achieved considerable success...
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  • Gideon Gibson Jr. (category African-American slave owners)
    (pp. 25–40). University Press of Florida, 2011. Paul Heinegg, Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware...
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    groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the US after White Americans. The term "African American" generally...
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  • Marie Thérèse Coincoin (category African-American slave owners)
    Coincoin, and Marie Thérèse Métoyer, (August 1742 – 1816) was a planter, slave owner, and businesswoman at the colonial Louisiana outpost of Natchitoches...
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    Marianne Celeste Dragon (category African-American slave owners)
    experienced the largest slave revolt in American history. The revolt occurred thirty miles outside of New Orleans. Slave owners began to dislike the Louisiana...
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  • Richard Edward Dereef (category African-American slave owners)
    Edward Dereef (c. 1798–1876) was an African-American man and become a slave owner of forty African-American slaves, American lumber trader, and politician....
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    American African Slave Trade Patrol, the abolition of slavery in the Americas, and the widespread imposition of European political control in Africa....
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  • Free Frank McWorter (category African-American slave owners)
    American born into slavery who bought his freedom in Kentucky and in 1836 founded the town of New Philadelphia in Illinois; he was the first African American...
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    transatlantic slave voyages from 1501 to 1867. For each voyage they sought to establish dates, owners, vessels, captains, African visits, American destinations...
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    Oxford African American Studies Center. Oxford University. Retrieved 20 May 2024. "Slave trade: How African foods influenced modern American cuisine"...
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    October 2023 "Britain's colonial shame: Slave-owners given huge payouts after abolition". National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC). 7 October...
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  • Antoine Dubuclet (category African-American slave owners)
    Before the American Civil War, Dubuclet was one of the wealthiest African Americans in the nation. After the war, he was the first person of African descent...
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  • Marie Couvent (category African-American slave owners)
    1837), also known as Justin Fervin, and Marie Justine Cirnaire, was an African-American philanthropist in New Orleans. She is best known for dedicating the...
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  • Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault (category African-American slave owners)
    her mother and her sister, she used slave labour in her business: in 1839, she paid taxes for five female slaves. In 1842, she became a landowner when...
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    Angel Oak (category Trees of Northern America)
    tree estimated to be 400-500 years old". Post and Courier. "African American slave owners". americancivilwar.com. Retrieved August 30, 2015. Pakenham...
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    of slave catchers from the American South became at the center of a major controversy in the lead up to the American Civil War; the Fugitive Slave Act...
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  • Marie Laveau (category African-American slave owners)
    Zombi after an African god, whether the occult part of her magic mixed Roman Catholic saints with African spirits, and Native American Spiritualism. Marie...
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    back-to-Africa movement was a political movement in the 19th and 20th centuries advocating for a return of the descendants of African American slaves to the...
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    slave's former owner chose to ignore custom and simply chose a name for the freedman. After they became free, African-American former slaves were free to...
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    strict law, slaves could own nothing. Yet in everyday Roman life a large volume of business was transacted by slaves: it suited their owners, who made money...
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    Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their wealth...
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    slave-dependent portions of North America, varying degrees of legal authority backed slave patrols by plantation owners and other free whites to ensure...
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  • women of African descent had nuanced experiences of slavery. Historian Deborah Gray White explains that "the uniqueness of the African-American female's...
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