page_title: List of enslaved people
section_title: G
hierarchical_section_title: List of enslaved people / G
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait painting of Rabia Gülnuş Sultan, 19th century, by an unknown artist; Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Portreler Koleksiyonu, 17/44
context_page_description: Slavery is a social-economic system under which persons are enslaved: deprived of personal freedom and forced to perform labor or services without compensation. These people are referred to as slaves.
  The following is a list of historical people who were enslaved at some point during their lives, in alphabetical order by first name. Several names have been added under the letter representing the person's last name.
context_section_description: Gabriel Prosser (1776–1800), leader of Virginia slave revolt.
  Galeria Lysistrate (2nd-century), mistress of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius.
  Ganga Zumba or Ganazumba (c. 1630 – 1678), a descendant of an unknown king of Kongo who escaped slavery in colonial Brazil and became the first leader of the runaway slave settlement of Quilombo dos Palmares.
  Gannicus, a Celtic enslaved person and one of the leaders of rebel slaves during the Third Servile War
  Genghis Khan (c. 1162 – August 18, 1227) captured after a raid and enslaved by the Taichiud.
  George Africanus (1763–1834), an African slave from Sierra Leone who became a successful entrepreneur in Nottingham.
  George Edward Doney (1758–1809), Gambian man enslaved by the Earl of Essex.
  George Freeman Bragg (1863–1940), born into slavery in North Carolina and later became a leading Episcopal priest and social activist.
  George Lewis (1794–1811), also known as Slave George, was a slave murdered in Kentucky on the night of December 15–16, 1811.
  George Moses Horton (1797–1884), the first African-American poet to be published in the Southern United States.
  George Sanders, a black enslaved person among the Cherokee, who described his oppressors as kind and providing clothes and food.
  George Washington Carver (c. 1864 – 1943), an African-American scientist, botanist, educator and inventor, born into slavery in Missouri and freed as a young child following the American Civil War.
  Giles, father of George Washington Carver.
  Glaumur, enslaved by the outlaw Grettir in early medieval Iceland (protagonist of "Grettis saga"). Glaumur is mentioned as loyally sharing his master's long exile on the lonely island of Drangey, off the northern tip of Iceland, though in the circumstances described in the saga he could have easily escaped.
  Gosala, a sixth-century BC ascetic teacher of ancient India – a contemporary (and rival) of Gautama Buddha – was said to have been born into slavery, and became a naked ascetic after fleeing from his irate captor, who managed to grab hold of Gosala's garment and disrobe him as he fled.
  Gonzalo Guerrero (died 1536), a sailor from Palos, Spain, who shipwrecked along the Yucatán Peninsula in 1511 and was enslaved by the local Maya.
  Gordon, also known as Whipped Peter, an African-American enslaved man who escaped from a Louisiana plantation in 1863. The images of Gordon's scourged back taken during a medical examination were published in Harper's Weekly and provided Northerners visual evidence of the brutality of slavery. They inspired many free blacks to enlist in the Union Army.
  Gryphus Ancient Roman enslaved person.  The epigraph of the slave boy Iucundus describes him as the son of Gryphus and Vitalis.
  Gülnuş Sultan (1642 – 6 November 1715) was Haseki Sultan of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV and Valide Sultan to their sons Mustafa II and Ahmed III.
  Guðríður Símonardóttir (1598–1682), Icelandic woman taken captive by North African slavers (Barbary Pirates).
  Gustav Badin (died 1822), butler at the royal Swedish court.
caption: Portrait of Gülnuş Sultan.
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