Actors

Slave Traders

Enslaved People

Deep South Cotton Planters

President Thomas Jefferson

New England Merchants

Federalist Party

Joseph Bradley Varnum

Aaron Burr

Alexander Hamilton

Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin

Napoleon Bonaparte

William Marbury

Secretary of State James Madison

President John Adams

Virginia Slaveholders

John Adams

Electoral College

Gabriel

Secretary of State Timothy Pickering

Democratic-Republican Newspaper Editors

Congressman Matthew Lyon

Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert

French Privateers

Elbridge Gerry

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Périgord

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Senator James Gunn

Governor George Mathews

Four Land Development Companies

Western Pennsylvania Farmers

U.S. Militia

American Ship Owners

Eli Whitney

Freedom Seekers

James Madison

First Congress

Southern Congressmen

Society of Friends (Quakers)

Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

Benjamin Franklin

Southern Slaveholders

James Wilson

Constitutional Convention

Charles Pinckney

Southern State Delegates

Constitutional Convention Delegates

Committee of Eleven

South Carolina Delegates

Pierce Butler

Committee of Style