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The list Women slaves includes Sally Hemings, Anna J. Cooper, Anna Kingsley, Sojourner Truth and Harriet Ann Jacobs. The list consists of 21 members and 4 sublists.
  • 1.

    Roxelana
    Haseki Sultan of Suleiman the Magnificent
    Roxelana
    Overview: Roxelana (Ukrainian: Роксолана, Roksolana; lit. 'the Ruthenian one'; c. 1500 – 15 April 1558), also known as Hurrem Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: خُرّم سلطان, Ḫurrem Sulṭān, Modern Turkish: Hürrem Sultan) ...
    Date of birth: 1500
    Date of death: 18 April 1558
    Age: 57 (age at death)
    Nationality: Ukrainian
    Occupation: Royalty
    Gender: Female
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    Concubines of Ottoman sultans 36T
    Mothers of Ottoman sultans 7T
    16th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans 14T
  • 2.

    Sally Hemings
    Slave of Thomas Jefferson (c. 1773–1835)
    Sally Hemings
    Overview: Sarah (Sally) Hemings (c. 1773–1835) was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson. Multiple lines of evidence indicate that Jefferson had a long-term sexual relationship with ...
    Date of birth: 1773
    Date of death: 1835
    Age: 61 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Other
    Gender: Female
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    Presidents of the United States and slavery 5T
    18th-century American slaves 112T
    19th-century African-American women 63T
  • 3.

    Anna J. Cooper
    African-American author, educator, speaker, and scholar (1858–1964)
    Anna J. Cooper
    Overview: Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars ...
    Date of birth: 10 August 1858
    Date of death: 27 February 1964
    Age: 105 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Historian
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century American academics 4T
    20th-century African-American writers 568T
    Literate American slaves 21T
  • 4.

    Vasilisa Melentyeva
    Tsaritsa of All Russia
    Vasilisa Melentyeva
    Overview: Vasilisa Melentyeva (Russian: Васили́са Меле́нтьева) was the legendary or real sixth wife of Ivan the Terrible. The marriage (not authorized by the Church) may have been celebrated in 1575 or she was simply ...
    Date of death: 1579
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Royalty
    Gender: Female
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    Wives of Ivan the Terrible 8T
    16th-century Russian women 21T
    Victims of domestic abuse 132T
  • 5.

    Anna Kingsley
    Former slave who became a major slave owner in Florida and Haiti
    Overview: Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, born Anta Madjiguene Ndiaye, (18 June 1793 – April or May 1870) was a West African from present-day Senegal who was enslaved and sold in Cuba. She became the wife of plantation ...
    Date of birth: 1793
    Date of death: 1870
    Age: 76 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Socialite
    Gender: Female
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    Women slave owners 73T
    Kingsley-Ndiaye family 4T
    American women landowners 17T
  • 6.

    Sojourner Truth
    African-American activist (1797–1883)
    Sojourner Truth
    Overview: Sojourner Truth (born Isabella "Belle" Baumfree; c. – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped ...
    Date of birth: 1797
    Date of death: 26 November 1883
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    African-American heroes and icons 14T
    Christian abolitionists 358T
    19th-century American slaves 304T
  • 7.

    Harriet Ann Jacobs
    African-American abolitionist and writer (d. 1897)
    Harriet Ann Jacobs
    Overview: Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American writer. Born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, she was sexually harassed by her master. When he threatened to sell her children ...
    Date of birth: 11 February 1813
    Date of death: 7 March 1897
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century African-American writers 29T
    Christian abolitionists 403T
    Literate American slaves 21T
  • 8.

    Sally Seymour
    American pastry chef
    Overview: Sally Seymour (died 3 April 1824), was an American pastry chef and restaurateur.
    Date of death: 3 April 1824
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Chef
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    Women slave owners 73T
    18th-century American businesswomen 29T
    19th-century American businesswomen 132T
  • 9.

    Amanda America Dickson
    American slave and socialite
    Amanda America Dickson
    Overview: Amanda America Dickson (November 20, 1849 – June 11, 1893) was a Bi-racial socialite in Georgia who became known as one of the wealthiest African American women of the 19th century after inheriting a large ...
    Date of birth: 20 November 1849
    Date of death: 11 June 1893
    Age: 43 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Socialite
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    Carrie A. Tuggle
    American educator, philanthropist, and social activist
    Carrie A. Tuggle
    Overview: Carrie A. Tuggle (May 28, 1858 – November 5, 1924) was an American educator, philanthropist, and social activist. After emancipation, she sought for equality in education, and the right to exercise voting ...
    Date of birth: 28 May 1858
    Date of death: 5 November 1924
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    19th-century American slaves 304T
    19th-century African-American women 63T
    Activists from Birmingham, Alabama 27T
  • 11.

    Lucy Marks
    African-American Jew from Philadelphia
    Overview: Lucy Marks was an African-American Jew from Philadelphia, one of the few documented Black Jews during early American history.
    Date of death: 1838
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  • 12.

    Ann-Elizabeth Fossett Isaacs
    Enslaved woman, Monticello
    Overview: Ann-Elizabeth Fossett Isaacs (1812-1902) was an African American woman who was born into slavery at Monticello, the plantation owned by then former president Thomas Jefferson. She lived there until she ...
    Date of birth: 1812
    Date of death: 1902
    Age: 89 (age at death)
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  • 13.

    Lucie Blackburn
    Former slave
    Overview: Lucie "Ruthie" Blackburn (1803-1895) was a self-emancipated former slave who escaped to Canada with her husband Thornton Blackburn and helped him establish the first taxi company in Quebec
    Date of birth: 1803
    Date of death: 1895
    Age: 91 (age at death)
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  • 14.
    Ana Gallum
    Overview: Ana Gallum, also referred to as Nansi Wiggins (circa 1755 - 1840), was a Senegalese woman, who was enslaved in Florida, eventually becoming a slave owning planter herself.
    Date of birth: 1755
    Date of death: 1840
    Age: 84 (age at death)
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    Women slave owners 74T
    American women landowners 18T
    18th-century American slaves 123T
  • 15.

    Acme (enslaved woman)
    Jewish slave and personal maid in the service of the Empress Livia Drusilla
    Overview: Acme was a Jewish slave and personal maid in the service of the Empress Livia Drusilla, wife of Caesar Augustus.
    Occupation: Writer
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  • 16.

    Edith Hern Fossett
    Slave who cooked for Thomas Jefferson
    Overview: Edith Hern Fossett (1787–1854) began her life as an American slave. Three generations of her family, the Herns, worked in Thomas Jefferson's fields, performed domestic and leadership duties, and made ...
    Date of birth: 1787
    Date of death: 1854
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Occupation: Chef
    Gender: Female
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  • 17.

    La Malinche
    Nahua aide to Hernan Cortez
    La Malinche
    Overview: Marina or Malintzin (c. 1500 – c. 1529), more popularly known as La Malinche was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who played a key role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, acting as ...
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  • 18.

    Juana Ramírez
    Venezuelan heroine
    Overview: Juana Ramírez (1790 - 1856), better known as Juana "La Avanzadora", was a soldier and heroine of the Venezuelan War of Independence.
    Date of birth: 1790
    Date of death: 1856
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: Venezuelan
    Occupation: Military
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    19th-century slaves 30T
    18th-century slaves 53T
    Women in the Venezuelan War of Independence 10T
  • 19.

    Lovisa von Burghausen
    Swedish memoirist
    Lovisa von Burghausen
    Overview: Lovisa von Burghausen (1698 – 20 January 1733) was a Swedish memoirist who became famous for her story about her time in captivity as a slave in Russia after being taken prisoner by the Russians ...
    Date of birth: 1698
    Date of death: 1733
    Age: 34 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    18th-century slaves 53T
    18th-century Swedish women writers 35T
    Women in war in Sweden 23T
  • 20.
    Overview: Hester Lane was an American abolitionist, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and political activist. Born into slavery in Maryland, she settled down in New York as a free woman. Lane was known in New York for ...
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