U.S. president John Tyler owned as many as 50 slaves during his lifetime.[1] According to a news item from 1943 on slave-owning presidents, "It is said that John Tyler sold one of his slaves to defray his expenses when he went to Washington to assume his duties as vice-president of the United States."[2] The names of three people enslaved by Tyler are currently known to researchers through the historical record:[3]
Armistead, a young valet who was killed in the explosion of the USS Princeton[3]
James Hambleton Christian, a half-brother of Tyler's first wife Letitia Christian[3]
Aunt Fanny[1]
In the 1840s, abolitionist publisher Joshua Leavitt alleged that Tyler fathered multiple enslaved children.[4][5]
Tyler is also alleged by descendants to have been the father of John Dunjee (born 1833), though this remains unproven.
^ ab"The Enslaved Households of President John Tyler". WHHA (en-US). Retrieved 2023-07-13.
^Stimpson, George W. (June 15, 1943). "You'd be surprised: Slave-owning presidents". Corpus Christi Times. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
^ abcHolland, Jesse J. (2016). The invisibles : the untold story of African American slaves in the White House. Guilford, Connecticut. pp. 185–192. ISBN 978-1-4930-0846-9. OCLC 926105956.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Crapol, Edward P. (January 2012). John Tyler, the Accidental President: Paperback Edition. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807872239.
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