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<\/a><\/p>\nDecember 23, 2014<\/p>\n
Slave Owners in<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n American History<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Posted by\u00a0Thomas L. Scott<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Col. Joshua John Ward of Georgetown, South Carolina: 1,130\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Known as \u201cKing of the Rice Planters,\u201d Ward had 1,130 enslaved Blacks on the Brookgreen plantation in South Carolina.\u00a0In 1850, Ward controlled six large plantations and produced 3.9 million pounds of rice.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dr. Stephen Duncan of Issaquena, Mississippi: 858\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Duncan was a businessman who collectively enslaved more than 2,000 Blacks during his time as one of the best cotton producers. The most he enslaved at one time was 858 in Issaquena. Duncan owned more than 15 plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Houmas House Plantation A.K.A. \u201dSugar Palace\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n John Burneside of Ascension, Louisiana: 753\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Burneside was the largest sugar producer in the country during his time at the Houmas Plantation. Before he died, he owned\u00a010 different plantations.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meredith Calhoun of Rapides, Louisiana: 709\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Plantations belonging to Calhoun surrounded the riverboat landing that would one day become the town of Colfax. At the peak of production, the Calhoun plantations held more than 700 Blacks in slavery and produced more cotton than any other property in Louisiana.\u00a0The Calhouns established one of the largest sugar mills in Louisiana, and the estate was valued in excess of $1 million in the 1860 census,\u00a0a considerable holding at that time.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n William Aiken of Colleton, South Carolina: 700\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Aiken was one of the state\u2019s wealthiest citizens, owner of the largest rice plantation in the state\u00a0\u2013 Jehossee Island\u00a0\u2013 with over 700 enslaved Blacks on 1,500 acres under cultivation, almost twice the acreage of the next largest plantation.\u00a0By 1860, Aiken owned the entire Jehossee Island, and the plantation produced 1.5 million pounds of rice in addition to sweet potatoes and corn \u2014 in the middle of the 19th century, rice was king in South Carolina\u00a0\u2013 of the 10 largest cash crops in 1850, seven were rice, two cotton and one sugar. After the Civil War, the plantation regained its preeminence, producing 1.2 million pounds of rice. Today, descendants of the Aiken family, the Maybanks, still own part of the island, having sold the remainder in 1992 to the U.S. as part of the ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gov. John L. Manning of Ascension, Louisiana: 670\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Manning owned at least two plantations holding 670 Blacks against their will. One in South Carolina\u00a0and another in Louisiana. He was a major supporter of\u00a0succeeding\u00a0from the Union.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gov. John L. Manning of Ascension, Louisiana: 670\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Manning owned at least two plantations holding 670 Blacks against their will. One in South Carolina\u00a0and another in Louisiana. He was a major supporter of\u00a0succeeding\u00a0from the Union.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Gov. Robert Francis Withers Allston of Georgetown, South Carolina: 631\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n His family was able to maintain two houses in Georgetown and several plantations, including the Allston ancestral home on the Pee Dee River, Chicora Wood \u2014 one of the five plantations Robert Allston owned, with over 900 acres and more than 600 enslaved Blacks.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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