page_title: List of enslaved people
section_title: H
hierarchical_section_title: List of enslaved people / H
caption_attribution_description: Vasari wrote that Titian once painted "portrait of Roxelana".This painting was attributed as probable copy of that portrait executed in Titian's workshop
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: Hababah, beloved concubine of Caliph Yazid II.
  Hagar, biblical figure, belonging to Sarah.
  Hanna, an enslaved woman in Virginia, and grandmother of Jackey Wright, who sued for her freedom in Hudgins v. Wright (1806) on the grounds that three generations descended from Butterwood Nan, who was an American Indian, not a black. The Virginia Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision by George Wythe, that because of Jackey's and Hanna's appearance as mixed Indian and European, she was entitled to the presumption of freedom, given the limited nature of Indian slavery. St. George Tucker and Spencer Roane said that, as most Africans had been imported as slaves and blacks descended from slave mothers, a black would not have the same presumption of freedom.
  Hannah Bond (born 1830s), pen name Hannah Crafts, wrote The Bondwoman's Narrative after gaining her freedom. Possibly the first novel by an African-American woman, it is the only known novel by a fugitive slave woman.
  Hark Olufs (1708–1754), Danish sailor, was captured by Algerian pirates. Sold to the Bey of Constantine, he became Commander in Chief of the Bey's cavalry. He was released in 1735.
  Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897), author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
  Hark Olufs (1708 – 1754) a North Frisian sailor, captured by Algerian pirates and sold into slavery.
  Harriet Powers (1837–1910), American folk artist, and quilter.
  Harriet Tubman (c. 1822 – 1913), nicknamed "Moses" because of her efforts in helping other American enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
  Harry, the plaintiff in the 1818 Harry v. Decker & Hopkins decision by the Supreme Court of Mississippi (the first among U.S. southern states) to free an enslaved person solely on the basis of prior residence in a free territory.
  Harry Washington (died 1800), also known as Henry Washington, was a slave of George Washington. Transported as a slave to America, he was bought by Washington in 1763 to work on a project for draining the Great Dismal Swamp.
  Hafsa Sultan (died March 1534) was the wife of Selim I and the first valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire as the mother of Suleiman the Magnificent.  Her background is disputed but some historians hold that she was a slave.
  Helen Gloag (1750–1790), of Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland, became the Empress of Morocco as the harem slave of the sultan of Morocco.
  Hercules (born c. 1755), head cook enslaved by George Washington at Washington's plantation, Mount Vernon. He escaped and gained his freedom in 1797, but his wife Alice and his three children remained in slavery.
  Helvius Successus, freed slave, and father of the Roman emperor Pertinax.
  Hermas, author of the text The Shepherd of Hermas and brother of Pope Pius I.
  Hernado de Escalante Fontaneda, born in Cartagena, was enslaved at the age of 13 when the ship bearing him to Spain for education sank off Florida. A Calusa chief enslaved him and used him as a translator until he was ransomed at 30.
  Horace (65 BC–8 BC), Roman poet.
  Horace King (architect) (1807–1885), American architect, engineer, and bridge builder, was born into slavery on a South Carolina plantation.
  Hümaşah Sultan (fl. 1647 – fl. 1672) was the wife of Sultan Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire.
  Hurrem Sultan (c. 1502 – 15 April 1558), also known as Roxelana, an Eastern European girl, was captured by slave raders and sold to the Imperial Harem, becoming the chief consort and legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent.
caption: Hurrem Sultan, an Eastern European slave girl bought by the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, who married her.
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