To raise the money to start many future plantation owners turned to capital markets in London - selling debt that was used to purchase boats, goods and eventually people. Slaves helped build the ...

However, the health of plantation slaves was far worse than that of whites ... well as the economic self-interest on the part of the owners) encouraged keeping mothers and children and sometimes ...

Robert Adams descends from slave owners. And last month, the men dined at the same table, on the very plantation where Adams' ancestors once owned Steward's, ABC News reports. In fact ...

The demand for slaves grew quickly, fuelled by the New World’s growing agricultural economy. Tobacco, cotton, coffee, rice and sugar plantation owners needed cheap labor and the slave traders ...

George Hibbert, West India merchant, slave and plantation owner, collector and philanthropist was born in 1757 to Robert (1717-1784) and Abigail Hibbert née Scholey (1721-1793) of Stockfield Hall ...

Louis in the remake he came from a family of plantation owners, slave owners, he was not morally cleansed of anything to do with slave ownership because he was a Black man. 'He was a brothel owner ...