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...
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...
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...