Famous People who were Slaves

Name these famous people who were also slaves at some point.

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Life	Hint	Person
1391 – 1271 BCE (?)	His people, the Israelites, were a minority enslaved by the Egyptian Pharaoh	Moses
c. 620 – 564 BCE (?)	Greek storyteller credited with a number of fables	Aesop
c.111 – 71 BCE	Led a slave uprising against the Roman Republic	Spartacus
400s	A Christian missionary who was taken as a slave to Ireland	Saint Patrick
c. 1750 – 1822	Protagonist of the 1976 Alex Haley novel and 1977 miniseries Roots	Kunta Kinte
1800 – 1831	African-American preacher who led the 4-day rebellion named for him, and was executed for it	Nat Turner
c. 1799 – 1858	African-American slave in Missouri who attempted to sue for his freedom in a famous trial	Dred Scott
1818 – 1895	Became a national abolitionist leader, famous for speaking and writing	Frederick Douglass
1822 – 1913	Born into slavery, escaped and later rescued 70+ by Underground Railroad	Harriet Tubman
1856 – 1915	American educator, author, orator, and adviser to presidents, founder of the Tuskegee Institute	Booker T. Washington
1860s – 1943	The most prominent black scientist of the early 1900s, he promoted alternative agriculture methods	George Washington Carver
Fictional	Mononymous title character of the 2012 Tarantino film	Django
Fictional	Now-retired mascot of the breakfast food brand of the same name, based on the enslaved "Mammy" archetype	Aunt Jemima

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