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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: Afro-European slave trading clans, American slave traders, British slave traders and slave holders, Francis Drake, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Henry Laurens, John Newton, Henry Every, James Bowie, Juan Davis Bradburn, Zephaniah Kingsley, Conquistador, Patty Cannon, Aaron Lopez, John Hawkins, Arsenio Pompilio Pompeu de Carpo, Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, Bandeirantes, USPG, John Brown, Charles Apthorp, Luis de Carabajal y Cueva, Richard Oswald, Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur, Peter Faneuil, Robert Drury, Edward Colston, Johan van Scharphuizen, Nathaniel Gordon, Isaac Franklin, Sir Thomas Frankland, 5th Baronet, James De Wolf, Sherbro Tuckers, Tippu Tip, James Penny, John Crenshaw, Felix Huston, Moses Benson, Charles Stewart, Christopher Codrington, Henry Ellis, Bully Hayes, Philip Livingston, Francisco Felix de Sousa, Okoro Idozuka, Pedro Blanco, William Ellison, Isaac Royall, Jr., Luke Collingwood, Tomas Terry, Robert Aldworth, Antera Duke, John Armfield. Excerpt: Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 - October 29, 1877) was a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered both as a self-educated, innovative cavalry leader during the war and as a leading southern advocate in the postwar years. He served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret vigilante organization which launched a reign of terrorism against blacks, carpetbaggers, scalawags and Republicans during Reconstruction in the South. A cavalry and military commander in the war, Forrest is one of the war's most unusual figures. Less educated than many of his fellow officers, Forrest had amassed a fortune prior to the war as a planter, real estate investor, and slave trader. He was one of the few officers in either army to enlist as a private and be promoted to general officer and division commander by the end of the w...
