Tornado Alley (PROG)

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So many statues to take down, so little time.


Times a' wastin'.


24 Famous Slaveholders

1. Hammurabi (c. 1955 – 1913 B.C.), king of Babylon

2. Aristotle (384 – 322 B.C.), Greek philosopher

3. Plutarch (46 – 120), Greek biographer and moralist

4. Constantine the Great (280 – 337), Roman emperor

5. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274), Italian theologian

6. Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506), Italian navigator

7. Martin Luther (1483 – 1546), German Reformation leader

8. Hernando Cortes (1485 – 1547), Spanish conqueror of Mexico

9. John Calvin (1509 – 1564), French protestant reformer

10. Sir Francis Drake (1540 – 1596), English navigator and admiral

11. Catherine the Great (1729 – 1796), empress of Russia

12. George Washington (1732 – 1799), first U.S. president. Owned 216 slaves in 1773

13. Patrick Henry (1736 – 1799), American political leader. In 1775, he said ‘Give me liberty or give me death.’ Owned 65 slaves at the time of his death

14. Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826), third U.S. president. Had 185 slaves in 1809

15. James Madison (1751 – 1836), fourth U.S. president. At one time had 116 slaves

16. Andrew Jackson (1767 – 1845), seventh U.S. president. Possessed 160 slaves when he became chief executive

17. John C. Calhoun (1782 – 1850), U.S. vice-president

18. Zachary Taylor (1784 – 1850), 12th U.S. president. When elected to the White House, had 300 slaves

19. John Tyler (1790 – 1862), 10th U.S. president

20. James K. Polk (1795 – 1849), 11th U.S. president. Owned 18 slaves

21. Jefferson Davis (1808 – 1889), president of the Confederate States of America

22. Andrew Johnson (1808 – 1875), 17th U.S. president

23. Chang and Eng Bunker (1811 – 1874), the original Siamese twins. Had 33 slaves between them on their farms in North Carolina

24. Ulysses S. Grant (1822 – 1885), 18th U.S. president. The man who led the Union armies in the Civil War that ended slavery himself owned four slaves.

https://theblogoflists.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/25-famous-slaveholders/