Barham, Joseph Foster (1759–1832), slave owner and politician, was born in London on 1 January 1759, the eldest son of Joseph Foster Barham (1729–1789), and his wife, Dorothea (d. 1781), daughter of Erasmus Vaughan of Trecŵn, Pembrokeshire. The musician and writer Thomas Foster Barham...
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Barham, Joseph Foster (1759–1832), slave owner and politician
Rachel Lang
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Barrett, Richard (1789–1839), slave owner and politician
Christer Petley
Barrett, Richard (1789–1839), slave owner and politician, was born in England on 11 October 1789, the second son of Samuel Barrett (1765–1794), a captain in the Horse Grenadier Guards, and Elizabeth Barrett Williams, née Waite (1754–1834), a widow. Barrett's mother and father were cousins and remained unmarried. ...
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Berridge, James (1774–1851), colonial official and slave owner
Chris Birch
Berridge, James (1774–1851), colonial official and slave owner, was born on 19 May 1774 in Bedford, the fifth son and fifth of the six children of William Berridge and his wife, Elizabeth, née Hood (1732–1812), sixth daughter of John Hood, a yeoman of ...
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Boddington, Samuel (1766–1843), West India merchant, slave owner, and collector
Nicholas Draper
Boddington, Samuel (1766–1843), West India merchant, slave owner, and collector, was born in London on 17 June 1766, the second son of Benjamin Boddington (d. 1791), a London West India merchant, and his wife, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Rickards, a haberdasher of ...
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Bolton, John (1756–1837), West India and South American merchant, slave trader, and slave owner
David Pope
Bolton, John (1756–1837), West India and South American merchant, slave trader, and slave owner, was born in King Street, Ulverston, Lancashire, on 22 March 1756, the third and youngest son of Abraham Bolton (d. 1764), apothecary, and his wife, Ann, née Philipson...
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Bonetta [married name Davies], (Ina) Sarah Forbes [Sally] (c. 1843–1880), Queen Victoria's ward
Joan Anim-Addo
Bonetta [married name Davies], (Ina) Sarah Forbes [Sally] (c. 1843–1880), Queen Victoria's ward, was born in west Africa (in the south-west of modern-day Nigeria) about 1843, of Yoruba descent. Few details are known about her family besides their massacre by forces loyal to the Dahomian monarch, ...
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Bonetta, (Ina) Sarah Forbes (c. 1843–1880)
Maker: Camille Silvy
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(Ina) Sarah Forbes Bonetta (c. 1843–1880) by Camille Silvy, 1862 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Burnley, William Hardin (1780–1850), slave owner and colonial politician
Selwyn R. Cudjoe
Burnley, William Hardin (1780–1850), slave owner and colonial politician, was born in New York City on 21 April 1780, the son of Hardin Burnley (1741–1823) and his wife, Catherine, née Maitland (1752/3–1827). His great-grandfather, John Burnley, was born about 1670 in England and became an army officer; he married ...
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Burton, Jack [alias John Anderson] (fl. 1831–1862), fugitive slave
Jeffrey Green
Burton, Jack [alias John Anderson] (fl. 1831–1862), fugitive slave, was born around 1831 in Howard county, Missouri, USA, the property of a tobacco farmer, Moses Burton. By his own account he was separated from his mother when aged about ten, as she was sold to another farmer. On Christmas day 1850 he underwent a form of marriage to ...
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Burton, Jack (fl. 1831–1862)
Maker: William Notman
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Jack Burton (fl. 1831–1862) by William Notman, 1861 © McCord Museum (I-0.55.1)
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Codrington, Christopher Bethell (1764–1843), slave owner and politician
Nicholas Draper
Codrington, Christopher Bethell (1764–1843), slave owner and politician, was born in October 1764. He was baptized Christopher Codrington at St Botolph without Bishopsgate, London, on 13 November 1764, the eldest son of Edward Codrington (1732–1775), a West India merchant in London, and his wife, ...
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Coker, Frances [Fanny] (1767–1820), freed slave and domestic servant
Christine Eickelmann
Coker, Frances [Fanny] (1767–1820), freed slave and domestic servant, was born on 26 August 1767 on Mountravers plantation, Nevis, in the West Indies, the first of five children of Black Polly (b. c.1752, d. in or after 1823). Her mother was probably enslaved in ...
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Diallo, Ayuba Suleiman [Job Ben Solomon] (c. 1701–1773), Muslim cleric and slave
David Killingray
Diallo, Ayuba Suleiman [Job Ben Solomon] (c. 1701–1773), Muslim cleric and slave, was born about 1701 in Bundu, west Africa, the son of Suleiman Diallo, otherwise Solomon or Soliman Dgiallo, a prominent Fulbe political and Islamic leader. He spoke several African languages, and Arabic, which he could also read and write, and by the late 1720s had married two wives and had several children. In 1730, with his interpreter ...
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Diallo, Ayuba Suleiman [Job Ben Solomon] (c. 1701–1773)
Maker: William Hoare
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Douglas, Cecilia (1772–1862), West India planter, slave owner, and art collector
Stephen Mullen
Douglas, Cecilia (1772–1862), West India planter, slave owner, and art collector, was born in Glasgow on 28 February 1772, the daughter of John Douglas, West India merchant, formerly of Edinburgh, and his wife, Cecilia, daughter of George Buchanan, merchant. Both her maternal and paternal family lines had connections with the ...
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Ewing, James (1775–1853), West India merchant, slave owner, and civic leader
Stephen Mullen
Ewing, James (1775–1853), West India merchant, slave owner, and civic leader, was born in Glasgow on 5 December 1775, the fifth child (and second son) of Walter Ewing (d. 1814) and his wife, Margaret, née Fisher (d. 1815). His father, who assumed the additional surname ...
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Gronniosaw, Ukawsaw [pseud. James Albert] (1710x14–1775), freed slave and autobiographer
Vincent Carretta
Gronniosaw, Ukawsaw [pseud. James Albert] (1710x14–1775), freed slave and autobiographer, was probably born in Bornu (now north-eastern Nigeria), the youngest of the six children of the eldest daughter of the king of Bournou (Bornu). Spiritually dissatisfied with the animist faith in which he was brought up, he soon alienated himself from his friends and relatives by his constant questions challenging their faith in physical objects, as well as by his growing belief in the existence of an uncreated creator. Increasingly '...
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Henson, Josiah (1789–1883), escaped slave, slavery abolitionist, and Methodist minister
Sharon A. Roger Hepburn
Henson, Josiah (1789–1883), escaped slave, slavery abolitionist, and Methodist minister, was born on 15 June 1789 in Charles county, Maryland, USA, one of six children of slave parents. He experienced the harsh realities of slavery early in life. He saw his father receive 100 lashes and then have his ear cut off as punishment for defending his mother from the plantation overseer. His father was then sold south and was never heard from again. ...
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Johnson, James Alfred (1847–1914)
Maker: William Thorpe
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James Johnson (1847–1914), by William Thorpe [assumed likeness]
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Johnson, James Alfred (1847–1914), fugitive slave, lay preacher, and author
Alan Rice
Johnson, James Alfred (1847–1914), fugitive slave, lay preacher, and author, was born in Smithville, the county seat of Brunswick in North Carolina on 20 March 1847. In his autobiographical narrative he describes himself as an enslaved African American who did not know his father and mother. However, on a later marriage certificate he gave his father’s name and occupation as ...
