Author: Members of the Pleasants Family

This is a list of enslaved people and their enslavers, who inherited them from John and Jonathan Pleasants. Specifically, it lists those who were enslaved by the following: Samuel Pleasants, Isaac W. Pleasants, Robert Cary Pleasants, Mary and Charles Logan, Margaret and Thomas Pleasants, Elizabeth and Robert Pleasants, Jr., and Margaret and Daniel Teasdale. The more than 400 enslaved people listed here were the subject of Pleasants v. Pleasants.

In this September 26, 1798, appeal, members of the Pleasants family challenge the decision by the High Court of Chancery that ruled in favor of Robert Pleasants and the enslaved people included in the will.