Reply #16: and plenty of northerners were absentee landlords/slaveowners [View All]

[maggrwaggr]

that's another thing people overlook.

Pierce Butler was a man who lived in Philadelphia who, when his aunts died, inherited a slave plantation on the South Georgia Sea Islands with 800 slaves (that's BIG). It was a big family secret in Philadelphia. His own wife didn't even know until the aunts died.