The debate became especially intense in 1854 after a runaway slave from Missouri named Joshua Glover was captured in Racine.

When she died at a young age, the father obliged her, and the former slaves named their town Betsy's Hope in her honor.

In 1812, a slave named Tom murdered a neighbor of George Hairston's plantation.

For instance, slaves in the service of the Florez family named themselves "Florez" or "Flores".

His young widow Susannah, their daughter Angelina, and a freed former slave to Col. Travis named Joe were spared.

Emperor Elagabalus referred to his chariot driver, a blond slave from Caria named Hierocles, as his husband.

Whether Thomas Jefferson and a mulatto slave named Sally Hemings were lovers may never be conclusively known.

The church began with eight members, one a slave of Tyre Glen named John.

Meanwhile, his family endures the Confederate occupation and even helps an escaped slave named John from being forcibly recruited to fight for the Confederacy.

In the Ottoman Empire, the last black slave sold in Ethiopia named Hayrettin Effendi, was freed in 1918.