page_title: List of enslaved people
section_title: O
hierarchical_section_title: List of enslaved people / O
caption_attribution_description: English: "Uncle Marian, a slave of great notoriety, of North Carolina," ambrotype daguerreotype, by unknown photographer. Half-length formal portrait. Identification from manuscript note found underneath the plate. Image courtesy of the Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection, Beinecke Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library, Yale University.[1]
context_page_description: Slavery is a social-economic system under which persons are enslaved: deprived of personal freedom and forced to perform labor or services without compensation. These people are referred to as slaves.
  The following is a list of historical people who were enslaved at some point during their lives, in alphabetical order by first name. Several names have been added under the letter representing the person's last name.
context_section_description: Oenomaus, a Gallic gladiator and one of the leaders of rebellious slaves during the Third Servile War.
  Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, a prominent African-British author and figure in the abolitionist cause whose birthplace is heavily contested.
  Omar ibn Said (1770–1864), a writer and Islamic scholar from Senegal who was enslaved and transported to the United States in 1807, where he spent the rest of his life enslaved.
  Onesimus, a slave of Philemon of Colossae who ran away and, having met St. Paul, was converted by him. Paul sent him back to the Christian Philemon with a letter, which is the Epistle to Philemon. Ignatius of Antioch mentions an Onesimus as Bishop of Ephesus in the early 2nd century, but it is not certain that these are the same men.
  Oney Judge (1773–1848), enslaved by the family of Martha Washington, and then by the First Lady herself, Judge worked at Mount Vernon and elsewhere as a personal servant to Martha Washington until she escaped in 1796 to Portsmouth New Hampshire.
  Owen Fitzpen, an English merchant who was taken captive by Barbary pirates in 1620 and subsequently escaped.
  Owen Breedlove, father of Madam C.J. Walker.
caption: Omar ibn Said, a Senegalese Islamic scholar enslaved in North Carolina for more than 50 years, circa 1850
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