List of Slaves - R

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• Rebecca Huger, a slave freed by General Benjamin F. Butler in New Orleans, and described in a Harper's Weekly article as being to all appearance white, and having come to a school for emacipated slaves in Philadelphia.
• Robert Blake earned the Medal of Honor as a sailor during the American Civil War, after becoming a contraband and enlisting.
• Robert Drury (born 1687; died between 1743 and 1750) was an English sailor who was shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar in 1702, and remained there as a slave till 1717.
• Robert Smalls (1839–1915), led boatload of slaves to freedom, and was later a politician
• Rosina Downs, a slave freed by General Benjamin F. Butler in New Orleans, and described in a Harper's Weekly article as being to all appearance white, and having come to a school for emacipated slaves in Philadelphia.
• Roustam Raza, Napoleon Bonaparte's Armenian bodyguard.
• Roxelana, (circa 1500–April 18, 1558), a concubine and later wife to the sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and mother of Selim II.