List of famous slaves
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A short list of famous slaves:
- Aesop, Greek poet, c. 6th century BC
- Spartacus, gladiator and rebel leader (died 71 BC)
- Marcus Tullius Tiro, Roman author (c. 103–4 BC)
- Epictetus (55–c. 135)
- Pope Callixtus I (died 222)
- Saint Patrick, Irish priest (c. 387–461)
- Henry the Black, first person to circumnavigate the Earth
- 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)
- 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
- Ann Plato (born 1820), free black schoolmistress and writer, member of the Talcott Street Congregational Church, Hartford CT and the first African American woman to publish a book of essays (1841)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
- Publius Terentius Afer
- Qutbuddin Aibak, sultan of Hindustan.
See also: Janissary