the richest slave owner was... (Read 986 times)

ren

the richest slave owner was...
« on: September 26, 2022, 08:13:28 PM »
a black person
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47379458

The 10 richest men of all time

    Mansa Musa (1280-1337, king of the Mali empire) wealth indescribable
    Augustus Caesar (63 BC-14 AD, Roman emperor) $4.6tn (£3.5tn)
    Zhao Xu (1048-1085, emperor Shenzong of Song in China) wealth incalculable
    Akbar I (1542-1605, emperor of India's Mughal dynasty) wealth incalculable
    Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919, Scottish-American industrialist) $372bn
    John D Rockefeller (1839-1937) American business magnate) $341bn
    Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov (1868-1918, Tsar of Russia) $300bn
    Mir Osman Ali Khan ( 1886-1967, Indian royal) $230bn
    William The Conqueror (1028-1087) $229.5bn
    Muammar Gaddafi (1942-2011, long-time ruler of Libya) $200bn

The king reportedly left Mali with a caravan of 60,000 men.

He took his entire royal court and officials, soldiers, griots (entertainers), merchants, camel drivers and 12,000 slaves, as well as a long train of goats and sheep for food.

It was a city moving through the desert.

A city whose inhabitants, all the way down to the slaves, were clad in gold brocade and finest Persian silk. A hundred camels were in tow, each camel carrying hundreds of pounds of pure gold.

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QUIETShooter

Re: the richest slave owner was...
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2022, 08:51:10 AM »
This is why I am an eternal skeptic.
Sometimes you gotta know when to save your bullets.

MassConfusion

Re: the richest slave owner was...
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2022, 01:05:19 PM »
This list seems kind of inaccurate especially for the top 10. Also where is the female and nonbinary list?  Very exclusive.
I dont know how the rothschilds have their money divided up as a family but im sure you could pop at least one of them in there. Not to mention the Royal British family. I would think the English kings would be in charge of their ridiculous amount of wealth when they are on the throne(not the toilet).  I'm not too sure who came up with the value estimates either and how they adjusted the values to be comparable.
Da Pope?
I dunno, it just doesnt look like an accurate list just by looking at it. More of something just to distract you.
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