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Antonio and Mundy, the presumed names of two 16th-century African slaves brought by Portuguese owners to Macau. They later managed to escape into Ming China. A popular legend states that one of them was the first to teach Chinese to an Englishman. [23] António Corea, European name given to a Korean. He was taken to Italy, which made him ...
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
A slave name is the personal name given by others to an ... 97 percent of female palace slaves at the Ottoman Imperial Harem ... which had been popular before ...
This also explains why female slaves were less likely to run away than men. [35] Many female slaves were the object of severe sexual exploitation; often bearing the children of their white masters, master's sons, or overseers. Slaves were prohibited from defending themselves against any type of abuse, including sexual, at the hands of white men.
The popular names Aisha, [4] Aaliyah, [18] and others are also examples of names derived from Islam. Several African-American celebrities began adopting Muslim names (frequently following a religious conversion to Islam), including Muhammad Ali , who changed his name in 1964 from Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Slave owners. It includes slave owners that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category contains women who owned enslaved people.
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Ancillae (plural) (singular, ancilla) were female house slaves in ancient Rome, as well as in Europe during the Middle Ages. [ 1 ] In Medieval Europe, slavery was gradually replaced by serfdom , but a small number of female slaves were imported as household servants for the wealthy, most commonly in Italy, Spain and France.