9 Feb
2018
9 Feb
'18
4:36 p.m.
1. One of the first legal slave owners in America was African-American tobacco farmer Anthony Johnson. 2. In 1830, 3,775 African-Americans owned 12,740 African slaves. 3. In 1860, Southth Carolina's largest slave holder was African-American plantation owner William Ellison. Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist) census.gov/history/pdf/histstats-colonial-1970.pdf wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ellison
