List of slaves

Slavery is a social-economic system under which people are enslaved: deprived of personal freedom and forced to perform labor or services without compensation.

These people are referred to as slaves, or as enslaved people.

The following is a list of historical people who were enslaved at some point during their lives, in alphabetical order by first name.

One of four statues of chained slaves at the base of the Monument of the Four Moors in Livorno , Italy, whose models may have been actual slaves
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Aesop in a Hellenistic statue claimed to be him, Art Collection of Villa Albani , Rome
Portrait of Andrey Voronikhin . Engraving by V. A. Bobrov from the beginning of the 19th century.
Abram Petrovich Gannibal , bust in Petrovskoe , Russia
Portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo by William Hoare (1733)
Baibars
Belinda Sutton's petition, reprinted
Saint Brigid of Kildare as depicted in Saint Non's chapel, St Davids , Wales
Charlotte Aïssé
Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha bust at Mersin Naval Museum
Dred Scott , who lost a legal suit for his freedom in the United States Supreme Court in 1857
Florence, Lady Baker c. 1875. A Romanian enslaved as an orphan, was bought by Samuel Baker , who married her.
Frederick Douglass , the foremost African-American abolitionist of the 19th century
Self-portrait by Fyodor Slavyansky (1850s, Russian museum)
Medical examination photo of Gordon showing his scourged back, widely distributed by abolitionists to expose the brutality of slavery
Portrait of Gülnuş Sultan
Hurrem Sultan , an Eastern European slave girl bought by Ottoman sultan Süleyman the Magnificent , who married her.
İbrahim Pasha
Ivan Argunov . Self-portrait (late 1750s).
Jean Parisot de Valette
St. Josephine Margaret Bakhita , F.D.C.C.
Portrait of Juan de Pareja by Diego Velázquez (c. 1650)
Kösem Sultan (1589–1651), slave concubine like all other inmates of the Imperial Harem
Laurens de Graaf
Mikhail Shchepkin
Omar ibn Said , a Senegalese Islamic scholar enslaved in North Carolina for more than 50 years, c. 1850
Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova in a scenic costume for Les mariages samnites by André Ernest Modeste Grétry
Portrait of Roustam Raza , the mamluck of Napoleon by Horace Vernet (1810)
Solomon Northup from Twelve Years a Slave
Silas Chandler (right) and his owner, Sergeant A.M. Chandler of the 44th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
The Death of Spartacus by Hermann Vogel (1882)
Taras Shevchenko
Tatyana Shlykova
Alleged portrait of Terence , from Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3868 . Possibly copied from 3rd-century original.
Vasily Tropinin
Vincent de Paul
Photograph of Wes Brady, ex-slave, taken in Marshall, Texas, in 1937 as part of the Federal Writers' Project Slave Narrative Collection
Zofia Potocka