List of slave owners

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 order by last name.

1856 lithograph of Preston Brooks attacking Charles Sumner , who had spoken against slavery two days earlier
The reputation of Edward Colston , long praised for philanthropy, has been reassessed as his connections to slave-trading were uncovered. Protestors toppled his statue in Bristol in 2020.
A slave cabin on the grounds of the home of Sam Davis in Smyrna, Tennessee
Marianne Celeste Dragon (1777–1856) was a wealthy mixed-race creole slave owner during the Spanish Louisiana .
Senator Rebecca Latimer Felton , the last U.S. Congressmember to have enslaved people
In 1769 Thomas Jefferson placed an advertisement in the Virginia Gazette offering a reward for an escaped slave named Sandy.
Toussaint Louverture was born into slavery, then owned slaves, and eventually liberated Haiti's slaves.
General Marion Inviting a British Officer to Share His Meal ( c. 1835 ); his slave Oscar Marion kneels at the left of the group.
Mansa Musa , accompanied by thousands of slaves, traveling to Mecca
John Newton captained slave ships and was enslaved himself in Sierra Leone . He became an abolitionist, calling the African slave trade "this stain of our National character".
"The slaves of Buenos Aires praising their noble liberator." In fact, de Rosas revived the slave trade and owned slaves himself.
1895 illustration depicting the c. 1655 slave-auction organized by Peter Stuyvesant
Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle
Painting
Life of George Washington : The Farmer (1851); his slaves harvest grain behind him.