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About Peter Manigault
Peter Manigault was an attorney, plantation owner, and colonial legislator native to Charleston, South Carolina. He was the wealthiest man in the British North American colonies at the time of his death and owned hundreds of enslaved persons. He was the son-in-law of Joseph Wragg, the largest slave trader of North America in the 1730s.
Everything about Peter Manigault →- Occupation
- lawyer, banker, plantation owner, politician
- Position held
- speaker
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 10, 1731
- Died
- November 12, 1773