List of Slaves - D

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• Danae, "the new maidservant of Capito", named in lead curse tablet from Republican Rome, which aimed to destroy Danae.
• Dave Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, (c. 1801–1876)
• David George, a black who fled a cruel Virginia master and was captured by Creeks and enslaved by Chief Blue Salt.
• Denmark Vesey (c. 1767–1822) was an African American slave, 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.
• Dincă, the half-Roma slave and illegitimate child of a Cantacuzino boyar in the 19th Century Danubian Principalities (the present 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 ).
• The Roman Emperor Diocletian was, by some sources, born as the slave of Senator Anullinus. By other sources, it was Diocletian's father (whose own name in unknown) who was a slave, and he was freed previous to the birth of his son, the future emperor
• Dred Scott (c. 1799–1858), attempted to sue for his freedom in Scott v. Sandford.
• Dufe the Old, a slave in Anglo-Saxon England, was freed by his mistress Æthelgifu's will.