Stephen Duncan was a wealthy plantation owner and politician in the antebellum South who owned hundreds of enslaved people and built his fortune through the...
John Adams:Â The second president did not approve of slavery and never owned slaves. He and his wife Abigail were offended when the federal government moved...
Colonel Joseph A. S. Acklen was an American plantation owner and businessman who lived in the mid-19th century. He was born in Huntsville, Alabama, in...
Robert Francis Withers Allston was a 19th-century American politician and planter who was born in Georgetown, South Carolina in 1801. He came from a wealthy...