Famous People Who Were Slaves - Statistics

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Life Hint Person % Correct
c.111 – 71 BCE Led a slave uprising against the Roman Republic Spartacus
83%
c. 620 – 564 BCE (?) Greek storyteller credited with a number of fables Aesop
82%
1822 – 1913 Born into slavery, escaped and later rescued 70+ by Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman
77%
Fictional Title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom
77%
Fictional Mononymous title character of the 2012 Tarantino film Django
75%
400s A Christian missionary who was taken as a slave to Ireland Saint Patrick
75%
1818 – 1895 Became a national abolitionist leader, famous for speaking and writing Frederick Douglass
67%
Fictional Protagonist of the 1976 Alex Haley novel and 1977 miniseries Roots Kunta Kinte
50%
Fictional Now-retired syrup mascot, based on the enslaved "Mammy" archetype Aunt Jemima
47%
1856 – 1915 American educator, author, orator, and adviser to presidents, founder of the Tuskegee Institute Booker T. Washington
35%
1860s – 1943 The most prominent black scientist of the early 1900s, he promoted alternative agriculture methods George Washington Carver
35%
Fictional Huckleberry Finn's friend who goes on adventures with him Jim
33%
c. 1797–1883 Major abolitionist and women's rights activist famous for her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech Sojourner Truth
33%
c. 1799 – 1858 African-American slave in Missouri who attempted to sue for his freedom in a famous trial Dred Scott
32%
1800 – 1831 African-American preacher who led the 4-day rebellion named for him, and was executed for it Nat Turner
23%
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