September 15, 1822 - Zachariah A. Rice
Rice's career spanned commerce, civic life, and armed service to the Confederacy — but the thread that places him here is his work as a slave trader in antebellum Atlanta, a trade that sat alongside his other business ventures as simply another line of enterprise.
From Wikipedia
Zachariah Armstead Rice (September 15, 1822 – July 2, 1890) was an American businessman who was prominent in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, in the decades before and after the Civil War. In addition to investments in textile mills, general merchandise stores, and real estate, Rice was a slave trader, Confederate officer, city councilman, and newspaper publisher of the Daily Intelligencer.
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