List of slave owners

This list includes notable individuals for which there is a consensus of evidence of slave ownership.

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A

• Abraham, Patriarch
• Gilbert André, one of two planters killed during the 1811 German Coast Uprising
• Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general
• Aleijadinho
• Atahualpa, Inca

B

• Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Self-proclaimed Caliph of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
• Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Latin American explorer
• Hayreddin Barbarossa
• Judah Benjamin, Secretary of State for CSA and U.S. senator
• Thomas Hart Benton, American Senator
• John M. Berrien, U.S. senator
• James Blair (c.1788–1841), British MP who owned sugar plantations in Demerara
• Simon Bolivar, Latin American independence leader
• Burwell Boykin, American ancestor of Anderson Cooper
• John C. Breckinridge, U.S. Vice President and Secretary of War (CSA)
• Brennus (4th century BC)
• Preston Brooks, US senator
• James Brown (Louisiana), U.S. Minister to France and wealthy sugarcane planter; later a Philadelphia resident
• Chang and Eng Bunker

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C

• Augustus Caesar, Roman emperor
• Julius Caesar, Roman dictator
• John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the U.S.
• Caligula, Roman emperor
• Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, hero of Cuban independence
• Landon Carter, Virginia planter
• Cicero, Roman statesman
• Cato the elder, Roman statesman
• Auguste Chouteau, 18th-century co-founder of the city of St. Louis
• Pierre Chouteau, half-brother of Auguste Chouteau & defendant in a freedom suit by Marguerite Scypion
• William Clark, explorer, American territorial governor
• Claudius, Roman emperor
• Henry Clay, United States Secretary of State and Speaker of the House
• Christopher Columbus
• Philip Cook, U.S. congressman and CSA general
• Hernán Cortés

D

• Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy
• Demosthenes
• Mrs. Georges Deslondes & Mrs. Jacques Deslondes, widows and owners of mulatto Charles Deslondes, the leader of the 1811 German Coast Uprising
• John Dovaston, 18th century British Sugar Planter, Botanist, Astronomer, Natural Historian

E

• William Ellison, an American slave, then a slave owner.
• Edwin Epps, owner of Twelve Years a Slave author Solomon Northup for 10 years.

F

• Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father; diplomat, inventor.
• Nathan Bedford Forrest, Lieutenant General of CSA and Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan

G

• Ghezo
• Ulysses S. Grant, U.S. President, Civil War general
• Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet (1764–1851), Scottish merchant, philanthropist, Member of Parliament, and the father of the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone

H

• Hadrian, Roman emperor
• Wade Hampton I, S.C. planter and Congressman, officer in the Revolutionary War & the War of 1812; in 1811, was Brigadier-General in the Territory of Orleans and attempted to suppress a large slave revolt with his troops, but the local militias largely handled it. At the time of Hampton's death in 1835, it is said that he owned more than 3,000 slaves.
• John Hancock, U.S. "founding father"
• Hannibal
• William Henry Harrison, U.S. President
• Christopher Helme
• Patrick Henry, U.S. "founding father"
• Thomas Heyward, Jr., S.C. circuit court judge, planter, and signer of the US Declaration of Independence
• Arthur William Hodge
• Horace, Roman poet
• Sam Houston, American political and military leader; friend of the Native Americans; the only person in U.S. history to have served as Governor in two states (Tennessee and Texas); and a courageous opponent of the Civil War
• Hjörleifr Hróðmarsson
• Eppa Hunton, U.S. Senator from Virginia, Confederate Army officer

I

• Pope Innocent VIII
• Benjamin Imlay

J

• Andrew Jackson, U.S. President
• John Jay, U.S. Founding Father and first Supreme Court Justice
• Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President, author of the Declaration of Independence, outlawed international slave trade
• Andrew Johnson, U.S. President
• Anthony Johnson, black slaveholder in colonial Virginia

L

• Domitia Lepida, female of the Roman imperial dynasty
• Richard Bland Lee, Virginia planter
• Robert E. Lee, attended West Point and served in the U.S. Army for many years, including the Mexican-American War; Commanding General of the Confederate States Army
• Meriwether Lewis, American explorer and territorial governor
• William J. Lowndes, South Carolina congressman

M

• Ferdinand Magellan,
• William Mahone
• James Madison, U.S. President
• Yaqub al-Mansur
• James Monroe, U.S. President
• Montezuma, Aztec
• Muhammad
• Moses

N

• Naaman, Syrian general in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)
• Nero
• Nicias

P

• Philemon, saint
• Philip III of Macedon, king of Macedonia
• Plato
• Vedius Pollio
• James K. Polk, U.S. President
• Pompey
• Ptolemy I of Egypt
• Ptolemy II of Egypt
• Ptolemy III of Egypt
• Ptolemy IV of Egypt
• Ptolemy V of Egypt
• Ptolemy VI of Egypt
• Ptolemy VII of Egypt
• Ptolemy VIII of Egypt
• Ptolemy IX of Egypt
• Ptolemy X of Egypt
• Ptolemy XI of Egypt
• Ptolemy XII of Egypt
• Ptolemy XIII of Egypt
• Ptolemy XIV of Egypt
• Ptolemy of Mauretania

R

• Edmund Randolph, first U.S. attorney general.
• John Randolph of Roanoke, planter, U.S. Senator, Minister to Russia

S

• Ismail Ibn Sharif
• Jayson Sylva, Owner of Nick Sims Jr. (Nico)
• Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy
• Lucius Cornelius Sulla,Roman Consul and Dictator

T

• Lawrence Taliaferro, played a role in the Dred Scott decision in the United States
• Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• Zachary Taylor, U.S. President
• François Tayon, defendant in an 1805 lawsuit in the Louisiana Territory by Marguerite Scypion, a part-Natchez slave
• Tegbessou
• Edward Telfair, U.S. Revolutionary War leader and early Governor of Georgia
• Theodoros, Emperor of Abyssinia
• Tiberius
• Madam Tinubu
• Tippu Tip
• Tiradentes
• George Trenholm, Secretary of Treasury, CSA
• François Trépagnier, one of two planters killed in the 1811 German Coast Uprising
• Homaidan Al-Turki
• John Tyler, U.S. President

U

• Ursuline nuns of New Orleans - bought smuggled slaves from Pierre Lafitte

V

• Martin Van Buren, U.S. President

W

• George Washington, U.S. President
• Martha Washington, U.S. First Lady
• Thomas H. Watts, Governor of Alabama and Attorney General of CSA
• John Wedderburn of Ballendean, known for being the defendant in a Freedom suit brought by Joseph Knight
• John Hill Wheeler, U.S. Cabinet official & N.C. planter, known for two female slaves who escaped his domain: Jane Johnson & Hannah Bond

See also

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