Case Studies of Various Slavery Owners

Case Studies

How different Slavery Owners and Confederates treated Enslaved Persons and those seeking to help their emancipation:

Nathaniel Harris Hooe

See 16 Feb 2026 Finding Your Roots - Season 12 Episode 7 with Lizo 

His will emancipated 200 to 300 enslaved people in VA and MS and provides funds to go to Liberia with American Colonization Society. VA allowed the emancipation. MS courts denied it. See also https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/9WK7-Z5G


Robert E. Lee - badly!


A Black church in Richmond honored Stonewall Jackson for teaching the enslaved to read when against the law, buying enslaved families at their request to avoid families from being split by a cruel owner. I am confident he would have accepted emancipation if a way was provided. Once the purpose of the war changed to emancipation, it was perhaps providential that he died from friendly fire.

Jeb Stuart did not take any special actions to help or free slaves in Kansas; instead, as a U.S. Army cavalry officer stationed there during the "Bleeding Kansas" era, he maintained a pro-slavery personal background and owned personal slaves while performing routine frontier and peacekeeping duties. [1, 2, 3]
Military Role in Kansas
    • Served as an officer in the 1st U.S. Cavalry starting in the mid-1850s at posts like Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley.
    • Patrolled the borderlands during the violent territorial conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions, though his official duty was keeping order for the U.S. Army rather than fighting for either political cause.
    • Fought primarily against local Indian tribes, such as the Cheyenne, rather than participating in anti-slavery campaigns. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
    Personal Stance on Slavery
      • Owned two slaves during his early military career (retaining them until around 1859), having inherited one from his family's Virginia estate and purchased another. [1, 2, 3]
      • Later assisted Robert E. Lee in capturing the radical abolitionist John Brown during the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, before eventually joining the Confederate Army to fight against the Union.


      General James Longstreet - commonly held racial views during and prior to the war, but then fully supported Reconstruction.


      George Rufus Kite, Lazarus Kite, James Polk Kite ...


      Types of Enslavers


      Original Enslavers - captured and sold to enslavers

      Buying Enslavers - bought and transported

      Financial Enslavers ...

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