The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical...

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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people of Mount Vernon, George Washington's plantation List of slave owners Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom 1926 Slavery Convention, an international...

This is a list of slave ships. These were ships used to carry enslaved people, mainly in the Atlantic slave trade between the 16th and the 19th centuries...

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...

Initially, slave owners offered incentives to the non slave owning whites, such as tobacco and money, to urge them to be more vigilant in the capture of runaway...

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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, provided that a slave did not become free by entering a free state and must be returned to their owner. Enforcement of these...

runaway slaves. Slave owners hired people who made a living catching fugitive slaves. Since these slave catchers charged by the day and mile, many of them...

end of the American Civil War. Twelve U.S. presidents owned slaves at some point in their lives; of these, eight owned slaves while in office. Ten of the...

Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between...

Black Sea slave trade was a center of the slave trade between Europe and the rest of the world from antiquity until the 19th century. One of the major...

Slave quarters in the United States, sometimes called slave cabins, were a form of residential vernacular architecture constructed during the era of slavery...

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...

Reduction of the National Debt to compensate slave owners in the British colonies in the amount of approximately £20 million for the freeing of slaves. Based...

to slave-owners without a jury. The New England Articles of Confederation of 1643 contained a clause that provided for the return of fugitive slaves. However...

Cruelties and Insolences of themselves or other ill-tempered People or Owners") and masters (and "any Christian") from unruly slaves; in practice, it provided...

plantations. Slave patrols: In the slave-dependent portions of North America, varying degrees of legal authority backed slave patrols by plantation owners and...

is the act of freeing slaves by their owners. Different approaches to manumission were developed, each specific to the time and place of a particular...

Slave markets and slave jails in the United States were places used for the slave trade in the United States from the founding in 1776 until the total...

A house slave was a slave who worked, and often lived, in the house of the slave-owner, performing domestic labor. House slaves performed essentially...

Slavery existed in the Sultanate of Zanzibar until 1909. Slavery and slave trade existed in the Zanzibar Archipelago for at least a thousand years. When...

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was an Act of the United States Congress to give effect to the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article...

given a single name by their owner. A slave who was freed might keep his or her slave name and adopt the former owner's name as a praenomen and nomen...

the Supreme Court of North Carolina ruled that slave owners had absolute authority over their slaves and could not be found guilty of committing violence...

A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves, as a way of fighting for their freedom. Rebellions of slaves have occurred in nearly all societies that...

America was known as the Middle Passage of the triangular trade. The owners of slave ships embarked as many slaves as possible to make the voyage more profitable...

to his disadvantage. Since the slave loses his status as a moral agent once the slave contract is enforced, the slave cannot act to enforce anything owed...

started with the slave compensation data, identifying slave-owners and the estates on which enslaved people lived. (As land owners in the British West...