page_title: List of enslaved people
section_title: F
hierarchical_section_title: List of enslaved people / F
caption_attribution_description: Frederick Douglass
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: Fabia Arete, Ancient Roman actress and freedwoman who is referred to as an elite actress or archimima who enjoyed a highly successful career and likely belonged to the minority of female actors to perform speaking parts.
  Felicitas (died 203), Christian martyr and saint.
  Fiddih, acquired by the Báb when she was no older than 7 years of age, Fiddih served the Báb's wife Khadíjih-Bagum. Fiddih would die the same night as her master.
  Florence Baker (1841–1916) Romanian-born British explorer, sold as a slave as an orphan, bought by Samuel Baker who married her.
  Fountain Hughes (1848—1957), interviewed in June 1949 about his life by the Library of Congress as part of the Federal Writers' Project.
  Francis Bok (born 1979), Dinka slave from South Sudan, now an abolitionist and author in the United States.
  Francisco Menendez, an enslaved man from South Carolina who escaped to Florida, where he served in the Spanish militia, leading the garrison established in 1738 at Fort Mose. This site was the first legal free black community in what is now the United States.
  François Mackandal (died 1758), Haitian Maroon leader.
  Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), born into slavery in Maryland and escaped to the Northeast in 1838, where he became an internationally renowned abolitionist writer, speaker, and diplomat.
  French John, a French fur trader captured by the Cherokee and enslaved by Old Hop, apparently making no effort for his freedom for many years, until he ran away when the British offered to buy him.
  C. Furius Cresimus, ancient Roman. As a freedman, he produced such crops from his small farm that he was accuse of witching away other people's crops, but when he produced his agricultural implements in court, he was acquitted. Pliny the Elder recounts his tale as evidence that hard work is what counts in farming.
  Fyodor Slavyansky (1817–1876), Russian serf painter.
caption: Frederick Douglass, the foremost African-American abolitionist of the 19th century
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