Sarah Baartman
Khoikhoi woman who was kidnapped, sold into slavery and exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus
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Ann Glover
The last person executed in Boston as a witch
Bisho Jarsa
Bisho was one of a group of Ethiopian slaves freed by a British warship in 1888 off the coast of Yemen, then taken round the African coast and placed in the care of missionaries in South Africa.
Anna De Koningh
Born into slavery, Anna De Koningh became a socialite in South Africa.
Celiast Smith
The life of Celiast Smith, a Clatsop woman, embodies an often-overlooked truth about the nineteenth-century Pacific West: the important role women’s movement played in claiming and making homes.
Annie Etinside
Melanesian indentured labourer Annie Etinside, hailed as a Queensland ‘pioneer’ on her death
Elizabeth Kearney Blood
Elizabeth Kearney Blood (1899-1969) resisted eviction during Boston’s West End demolition in 1958.
Arabella Jeffereyes
1700s Irish landowner and social radical
Sinéad Derrig
Irish civil servant
Catherine Boyle
1600s countess of Cork