User:Flaggingwill/John Burnside (plantation owner)

John Burnside (1800–1881) was one of the largest slaveholders in the antebellum United States. Born

Burnside's origins are mysterious. Throughout his life, he claimed to be an immigrant from Ireland and a British subject. But he refused to discuss his family or ancestry with any detail.

After his death, The New York Times published an anonymous claim from someone who claimed to know Burnside as a child...

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Burnside died June 29, 1881 at the resort of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.