List of known slaves

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A short list of famous slaves:

• Hagar Biblical figure, belonging to Sarah
• Joseph Biblical figure (about 1600 BC)
• Aesop, Greek poet, c. 6th century BC
• Terence (full name Publius Terentius Afer), Roman playwright, died 159 BC
• Spartacus, gladiator and rebel leader (died 71 BC)
• Marcus Tullius Tiro, Roman author (c. 103–4 BC)
• Onesimus, a slave of Philemon of Colossae who ran away and, having met St. Paul, was converted by him. Paul set him back to the Christian Philemon with a letter, which is the Epistle to Philemon. Ignatius of Antioch mentions an Onesimus as Bishop of Ephesus in the early second century, but it is not certain that these are the same man.
• Epictetus (55–c. 135)
• St. Felicitas martyr (died March 7, 203)
• Pope Callixtus I (died 222)
• Saint Patrick, British; after escaping slavery in Ireland, became a priest and returned there as a missionary (c. 387–461)
• Henry the Black, first person to circumnavigate the Earth
• Roxelana, (circa 1500 - April 18, 1558), a concubine and later wife to the sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and mother of Selim II.
• Estevanico, or "Esteban the Moor," one of only four surivors of the ill-fated Narváez expedition and later a guide in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Gold (ca. 1503-1539)
• Benedict the Moor (1526 – April 4, 1589)
• Miguel de Cervantes (September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616), author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, which is considered the first modern novel
• Saint Vincent de Paul. (1576–1660) Taken captive by Turkish pirates and sold into slavery. Freed in 1607.
• Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, also known as Job ben Solomon (1701–1773)
• Scipio Africanus (c. 1702-1720)
• Abram Petrovich Gannibal (died 1781), adopted by Peter the Great, became a governor-general
• George John Scipio Africanus (1763–1834)
• Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797), also sometimes called Gustavus Vassa, prominent American author
• Absalom Jones, (1746 - February 13, 1818), abolitionist and clergyman.
• Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758–1806), leader of the Haitian Revolution and first leader of independent Haiti
• George Africanus (1763—1834)
• Denmark Vesey (c. 1767–1822)
• Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883)
• Juan Francisco Manzano (c.1797–1854) Cuban slave and poet.
• Dred Scott (c. 1799–1858)
• Margaret Garner (1835 – 1858)
• Nat Turner (1800–1831)
• Dave the Potter (c. 1800–1864)
• John Brown (fugitive slave) (c. 1810–1876)
• Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–1895)
• Harriet Tubman (1820–1913)
• Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)
• Josephine Bakhita, (1869 — February 8 1947) Sudanese, a nun and a Roman Catholic saint.
• Abul-Hasan Alí Ibn Nafí, aka "Ziryab", musician, introduced asparagus to Europe (c. 789 - 857).
• François Mackandal, Haitian maroon leader
• Joshua Glover, a runaway slave whose plight led to Wisconsin becoming the only state to declare the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 unconstitutional.
• Amanda America Dickson, daughter of her owner, the fight over her inheritance on his death went all the way to the Supreme Court of Georgia.
• Zheng He Chinese explorer.
• Qutbuddin Aibak, sultan of Hindustan.
• William Ellison (1790-1861) A half black and half white slave, gained his freedom and became a slaveholder himself producing cotton

See also: Janissary