The Master of Morton and the eldest son of the Chief of Clan Oliphant, two Scottish nobles who were exiled from Scotland after being implicated in the 1582 Raid of Ruthven. The ship in which they sailed was lost at sea, and it was rumoured that they had been caught by a Dutch ship. The last report was that they were slaves on a Turkish ship in the Mediterranean. A plaque to their memory was raised in the church in Algiers. (M)
James Leander Cathcart (1767–1843), a diplomat, slave, and sailor notable for his narrative as a slave in Algiers for eleven years and for his diplomatic accomplishments while in slavery. (J)
Leonor de Mendoza, an enslaved woman in colonial Mexico who tried to marry Tomás Ortega, an enslaved man of another master; when her master imprisoned Tomás, she appealed to a church court for assistance, and it threatened excommunication for the master if he did not free Tomás. (L)
Eliza Hopewell, an enslaved woman of Confederate spy Isabella Maria Boyd ("Belle Boyd"). In 1862 she helped her mistress' espionage activities, carrying messages to the Confederate Army in a hollowed-out watch case. (E)
Nero Hawley (1742–1817), a freed enslaved person who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and was buried in Trumbull, Connecticut. (N)
Robin and Polly Holmes, the plaintiffs in the 1853 Holmes v. Ford court case in the Oregon Territory that freed their children. The decision re-affirmed that slavery was illegal in the territory as outlined in the Organic Laws of Oregon that were continued once the region became a U.S. territory. (R)
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