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Gov. John L. Manning: 6th Largest Slave Owner

John Lawrence Manning was the 65th Governor of South Carolina. Manning was said to have come into a rather sizeable fortune throughout the marriage. He married the daughter of General Wade Hampton I. His wife later died in childbirth. Manning later remarried and had multiple children with his second wife.

They owned a plantation called Milford Plantation which still stands today as a historic landmark. In 1860, John reported that he owned 670+ enslaved black human beings. This astounding number of people made him the sixth largest slave owner in the United States.