Richest Slave Owners In History

Determining the richest slave owners in history can be challenging due to limited historical records and varying levels of wealth among slaveholders. However, it is known that there were wealthy individuals who owned large numbers of enslaved people. Here are a few examples:

James De Wolf: James De Wolf was a prominent American slave trader and owner during the 18th and 19th centuries. He came from a wealthy family involved in the slave trade in Rhode Island. The De Wolf family amassed significant wealth through their involvement in the slave trade and owned several plantations in the Caribbean.

Simon Taylor: Simon Taylor was a wealthy British Jamaican plantation owner in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He owned numerous sugar estates in Jamaica and held vast amounts of wealth derived from the labor of enslaved people.

Stephen Duncan: Stephen Duncan, an American planter from Mississippi, was one of the wealthiest individuals in the antebellum South. He owned multiple plantations and thousands of enslaved people, accumulating significant wealth from the cotton industry.

It is important to note that the wealth of these individuals and others like them was derived from the forced labor and exploitation of enslaved people. Slavery was a deeply immoral and oppressive system that caused immeasurable suffering to millions of people.

[jasondelaloire]

Those 2 pictures at the end are from the Barbary Slave trade.

[jensen]

That's wild I would have thought that the black rival tribe members in Africa that's sold all their own people would have been the largest distributors of slaves and probably the most beneficial ones considering it was supporting their whole tribe excuse me tribes

[mjk]

They were very respectable and honorable property owners.

[davidwalker]

Some of …. They definitely wasn’t the only ones and some definitely were a lot bigger industries like in Africa and across the Arab world where it still exists.
White people regardless we’re treated worser than black slaves in most places so don’t paint a narrative that can’t be backed by facts as most people keep on making white folks look worser than is needed, just as an example black slave owners treated their own/ slaves worser than most. Muslims kind of have the title on most of the things when it comes to slaves then Arabs in general then what appears to black folks then Asians and Europeans.

[abdullahkarim]

No Exsperation Date On Allah Hebrew People