List of Slaves - H

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• Hababah, beloved concubine of Caliph Yazid II.
• Hagar, Biblical figure, belonging to Sarah.
• Hanna Hudgins, a slave in Virginia, sued for her freedom in Hudgins vs. Wright (1806) on the grounds that her mother, Butterwood Nan, was an American Indian, not a black. The Virginia Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision by George Wythe, that because of her appearance as mixed Indian and European, she was entitled to the presumption of freedom, given the limited nature of Indian slavery. St. George Tucker said that, as most Africans had been imported as slaves and blacks descended from slave mothers, a black would be presumed a slave and had to prove his freedom.
• Harddick, English courtier, spent 25 years as a slave in North Africa.
• 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 Ann Jacobs (1813–1897), author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
• Harriet Tubman, nicknamed "Moses" because of her efforts in helping other American slaves escape through the Underground Railroad.
• Hercules (chef), head cook at George Washington's plantation Mount Vernon. Escaped and gained his freedom in 1797, but his wife Alice and his three children: Richmond, Evey and Delia remained in slavery.
• Sally Hemings, mixed-race slave of Thomas Jefferson and his concubine; widely believed to have had six children with him, four of whom survived to adulthood.
• 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.