This is a list of vice presidents of the United States who owned slaves. Slavery was legal in the United States from its beginning as a nation, having been practiced in North America since early colonial days. The Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution formally abolished slavery in 1865, after the end of the American Civil War.
At least nine vice presidents owned slaves at some point in their lives. Thomas Jefferson was the first while Andrew Johnson was the last.
Vice presidents who owned slaves
See also
- Lists of United States public officials who owned slaves
- Abolitionism in the United States
- District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act (1862), which ended slavery in Washington, D.C.
- John Quincy Adams and abolitionism
- List of slave owners
- Slavery in the District of Columbia
- Slavery in the United States
- Treatment of slaves in the United States
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