page_title: List of enslaved people
section_title: D
hierarchical_section_title: List of enslaved people / D
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of Dred Scott, taken around the time of his court case in 1857
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: Danae, "the new maidservant of Capito", named in lead curse tablet from Republican Rome, which aimed to destroy Danae.
  Dave Drake (c. 1801–1876), also known as Dave the Potter.
  David George, a black man who fled a cruel Virginia master and was captured by Creeks and enslaved by Chief Blue Salt.
  Deborah Squash, with her husband Harvey escaped from George Washington's Mount Vernon, joined the British in New York during the American Revolutionary War, and were evacuated in 1783 as freedmen.
  Denmark Vesey (c. 1767–1822), an African-American enslaved man and later a freeman who planned what would have been one of the largest slave rebellions in the United States had word of the plans not been leaked.
  Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761–1804), born into slavery as the natural daughter of Maria Belle, an enslaved African woman in the West Indies, and Sir John Lindsay, a British career naval officer. Lindsay took Belle with him when he returned to England in 1765, entrusting her raising to his uncle William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, and his wife Elizabeth Murray, Countess of Mansfield. The Murrays educated Belle, bringing her up as a free gentlewoman at their Kenwood House, together with their niece, Lady Elizabeth Murray. Belle lived there for 30 years. In his will of 1793, Lord Mansfield confirmed her freedom and provided an outright sum and an annuity to her, making her an heiress.
  Diogenes of Sinope (c. 412–323 BCE), Greek philosopher kidnapped by pirates and sold in Corinth.
  Diondre Hammond, hailed from Africa, sent by British to colonial America, later escaped to what is now southern California.
  Dincă, the half-Roma enslaved man and illegitimate child of a Cantacuzino boyar in the 19th-century Danubian Principalities (present-day Romania). Well-educated, working as a cook but not allowed to marry his French mistress and go free, which had led him to murder his lover and kill himself. The affair shocked public opinion and was one of the factors contributing to the abolition of slavery in Romania (see ).
  Diocletian (244–312), Emperor of Rome, was by some sources born as the slave of Senator Anullinus. By other sources, it was Diocletian's father (whose own name is unknown) who was a slave, and was freed prior to the birth of his son, the future emperor.
  Dragut (1485-1565) Ottoman commander, gally slave during his Italian captivity.
  Dred Scott (c. 1799–1858), an African-American enslaved man in Missouri who attempted to sue for his freedom in a nationally publicized trial, Scott v. Sandford, that reached the United States Supreme Court in 1857.
  Dufe the Old, an enslaved man in Anglo-Saxon England, was freed by his mistress Æthelgifu's will.
caption: Dred Scott, who lost a legal suit for his freedom in the United States Supreme Court in 1857
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