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- Nancy Caffrey, a white captive enslaved by a Creek. When trader John O'Reilly attempted to ransom her and Elsey Thompson, he was told they were not taken captive to be allowed to go back, but to work.
- Nanny of the Maroons, also known as Granny Nanny and Queen Nanny, Jamaican Maroons leader.
- Nat Turner (1800–1831), escaped and led revolt in Southampton County, Virginia.
- Nathan McMillian, who as a freedman sued for the admission of his children to a local "Croatan Indian" school on the grounds that it was for all non-white children, and that his children had Croatan blood on their mother's side.
- Neaera, a former slave and prostitute whom the Athenian Stephanus married against the law, according to a speech of Demosthenes.
- Nero Hawley (1742–1817), freed slave, served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, buried Trumbull, Connecticut.
- Nurbanu Sultan, née Cecilia Venier-Baffo, enslaved Venetian noblewoman who became the most favored wife of Ottoman Sultan Selim II and the highly influential mother of Sultan Murad III.
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