Claiborne Jackson son of Dempsey Carroll and Mary Orea "Molly" (Pickett) Jackson, was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, where his father was a wealthy tobacco farmer and slaveholder.
Martin and Grenier each won only one of the state's sixty-seven counties -- Winston in north Alabama, whose descendants were mostly non-slaveholders who had been Republican at the time of the American Civil War.
A vocal supporter of slaveholder rights, President Buchanan endorsed the Lecompton Constitution before Congress.
In the nineteenth century, slave revolts such as the Haitian Revolution and especially the 1831 rebellion led by Nat Turner increased slaveholder fears, and most southern states passed laws making manumission nearly impossible until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery after the American Civil War in 1866.
His father was a wealthy gentleman farmer, a slaveholder, and county judge whose home, known as the Conway House, still stands in Falmouth at 305 King Street (aka River Road) along the Rappahannock River.
The novel was adapted as a TV film which aired on the Disney Channel starring Carl Lumbly as John, Beau Bridges as the slaveholder, and introducing Allison Jones as Sarny.
In 1811, Arthur William Hodge was the first slaveholder executed for the murder of a slave in the British West Indies.
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