Yes, there was a slave owner with the last name of Jenkins. He owned a plantation in Mississippi.
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Garcia. It is the 8th most popular last name in America, making it the 1st most popular HISPANIC last name in America.
Well I know a few people who have that last name or is similar.
America was named after an Italian explorer by the name of Amerigo Vespucci.
The first slave ship to arrive in America was the San Juan Bautista in 1526, carrying enslaved Africans to the Spanish colony of San Miguel de Guadalupe in present-day South Carolina.
Yes, there was a slave owner with the last name of Jenkins. He owned a plantation in Mississippi.
He uses a x in his last name, because when African Americans were shiped to America from Africa, their names were changed by their slave owners. Many African Americans used this last name x, because they knew that their last name was changed by slave owners and they wanted to show that they were no longer slaves or controlled by white people.
Leif Erikson
i nthe time of black slave, a slave took the last name of their owner. malcom x became independent of that when he gave up his slave name for the variable x which represents his true last name that he lost to the slave owner. =========================================================== Above is a different answer from what I heard on a different website. Malcolm X isn't his REAL name. The Malcolm was given to him by one of his teachers and the X is an unknown thing in math, so that's how he made his name... Malcolm 'Unknown'
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Harriet Tubman got her last name from her fist slave owner
Yes, there were slave owners with the last name Lewis. One notable example is Meriwether Lewis, who was a slave owner and explorer known for his role in the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Terrell became a slave because her mom was African American and she had her mom's last name. Her master learned her last name and put her into slavery. Before she became a slave, she was her master's made.
Garcia. It is the 8th most popular last name in America, making it the 1st most popular HISPANIC last name in America.
Joseph, no last name known.
The last name Lake originated from America.