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Maria Guyomar de Pina (Thai: มารีอา กียูมาร์ ดึ ปีญา; 1664 – 1728) (also known as Maria Guiomar de Pina, Dona Maria del Pifia or as Marie Guimar and Madame Constance in French), Thao Thong Kip Ma (Thai: ...
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François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda; 1743 – 7 April 1803) was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. During ...
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Thumal the Qahraman (Arabic: ثمل القهرمانة) (died 929) was a Muslim woman appointed in 918 as a judge in a maẓālim (secular administrative) court during the reign of Caliph al-Muqtadir (r. 908-932) ...
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Marcos Xiorro was the slave name of an enslaved African in Spanish Puerto Rico who, in 1821, planned and conspired to lead a slave revolt against the sugarcane plantation owners and the Spanish Colonial ...
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Several dwarfs to have had their histories recorded were employed as court dwarfs. They were owned and traded amongst people of the court, and delivered as gifts to fellow kings and queens.
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An odalisque (Ottoman Turkish: اوطهلق, Turkish: odalık) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. In western ...
Lady-in-waiting to Kösem Sultan and Turhan Hatice Sultan
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Meleki Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: ملکی خاتون; "Angel" died 27 February 1656) was a lady-in-waiting to Kösem Sultan, her son Sultan Ibrahim, and later to Turhan Hatice Sultan, Haseki of Ibrahim and mother ...
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Bukola Oriola (born 1976) is a Nigerian-American journalist. She lives in Anoka County, Minnesota, and has a son named Samuel Jacobs. She spent six years as a journalist covering education in Nigeria while ...
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Filizten Hanımefendi (c. 1865 - 1945; birth name Princess Naime Filiz Çabalar-Çaabalurhva, other names Filistin)(Filizten meaning "tendril bodied") was the wife of Murad V, deposed Ottoman Sultan.
Slave of US President Jackson and his wife Rachel.
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Hannah Jackson (c. 1801-1895) was an African American household slave of President Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel. She was present at both their deaths. She was interviewed twice late in her life for ...
lady-in-waiting (musahibe) to Sultan Murad III of the Ottoman Empire
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Ayşe Raziye Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: راضیه خاتون; "the living one" or "womanly" and "the accepting one" died 26 June 1597) was a lady-in-waiting to Sultan Murad III of the Ottoman Empire.
mistress housekeeper (kedbanu-yi harem, Kethüde Hatun, Kahya Kadın) of the imperial harem during the reign of Murad III.
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Saliha Canfeda Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: صالحہ جان فدا خاتون; "the devoted one" and "soul"; died c. 1600) was a lady-in-waiting to Nurbanu Sultan and Sultan Murad III of the Ottoman Empire.
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Mariah Bell Otey Reddick (1832–1922), also known as Maria Reddick, was an American midwife, nurse, and domestic worker who was held as a slave at Carnton Plantation in Franklin, Tennessee. She worked for ...
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Reytory Angola (c.– 1689) was a Black woman from New Amsterdam. Brought to the colony as a slave of the Dutch West India Company, she received conditional manumission in 1644. In 1661, she became the first ...