page_title: List of enslaved people
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hierarchical_section_title: List of enslaved people / L
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Лоренс Де Графф в молодости
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: Lamhatty, a Tawasa Indian captured and enslaved by Creek; he escaped.
  Laurens de Graaf (c. 1653-1704) a Dutch pirate, mercenary, and naval officer, enslaved by Spanish slave traders when captured in what is now the Netherlands and transported to the Canary Islands to work on a plantation, prior to 1674.
  La Mulâtresse Solitude (1772–1802), a slave on the island of Guadeloupe freed in 1794 by the abolition of slavery during the French Revolution. She was executed after having fought for freedom when slavery was reintroduced by Napoleon in 1802.
  Leo Africanus, (1494–1554), a Moor born in Granada who was taken by his family in 1498 to Morocco when expelled from Spain. As an adult he served on diplomatic missions. Captured by Crusaders while in the Middle East, he was enslaved in Rome and forced to convert to Christianity. He eventually regained his freedom and lived out his life in Tunis.
  Leofgifu the dairy maid, an enslaved woman in Anglo-Saxon England, named in her manumission.
  Leoflaed, an enslaved woman in Anglo-Saxon England, whose freedom was bought by a man who described her as a "kinswoman."
  Leonor de Mendoza, an enslaved woman in colonial Mexico who tried to marry Tomás Ortega, an enslaved man of another master; when her master imprisoned Tomás, she appealed to a church court for assistance, and it threatened excommunication for the master if he did not free Tomás.
  Lewis Adams (1842–1905), a former slave who co-founded the Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, in Alabama.
  Lilliam Williams, a Tennessee settler who was captured by the Creek while pregnant. The Creek adopted her daughter (whom she named Molly and they named Esnahatchee,); they kept the girl when Williams' freedom was arranged.
  Liol, a Chinese enslaved man of the Mongol banner man Soosar.  He was rewarded with semi-independent status, as a separate register dependent.  In 1735, his son Fuji tried to claim that he and his brother were in fact Manchus and detached household bannermen, but failed.
  Jermain Wesley Loguen (1813–1872), an African-American escaped enslaved man who became an abolitionist, a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the author of a slave narrative.
  Louis Hughes (1832–1913), African-American escaped enslaved man, author, and businessman
  Lovisa von Burghausen (1698–1733), Swedish writer who published an account of being enslaved in Russia after being taken prisoner during the Great Northern War.
  Lucius Agermus, freedman of Agrippina the Elder.
  Lucius Aurelius Hermia, a freedman butcher whose tombstone glorifies his marriage with his fellow freedwoman Aurelia Philematium.
  Lucius Cancrius Primigenius, a freedman of Clemens in an inscription praising him for breaking spells against the city.
  Lucius of Campione, who lost a lawsuit in the 8th century over a man Toto's claimed ownership of him.
  Lucy, the black woman enslaved by John Lang. She was taken captive by the Creek when 12 years old and kept in slavery in Creek territory, where she had slave children and grandchildren.
  Lucy Ann (Berry) Delaney (1830–1891), former enslaved woman and daughter of Polly Berry.
  Lunsford Lane (1803 – after 1870), an African-American enslaved man and entrepreneur from North Carolina who bought freedom for himself and his family. He also wrote a slave narrative.
  Lyde, an enslaved woman freed by the Empress Livia.
  Lydia, an enslaved woman who was shot and wounded by her captor when she struggled to escape a whipping. The action was ruled legal by the Supreme Court of North Carolina in 1830 (see North Carolina v. Mann).
  Lydia Carter, the "Little Osage Captive," captured and enslaved among the Cherokee. She was ransomed by Lydia Carter, who made her her namesake. The Osage attempted to reclaim her, but she took ill and died.
   Lydia Polite, mother of Robert Smalls.
caption: Laurens de Graaf.
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