Three people were later convicted of the alleged kidnapping, but later pardoned following an investigation by the Lord Mayor of London, Crisp Gascoyne. She was detained in multiple locations across Scotland, and despite a rescue attempt by her lawyer Thomas Hope, she died in captivity.Įnglish maidservant who claimed to have been kidnapped and held hostage in a hayloft. The wife of Jacobite lawyer James Erskine, Lord Grange, Chiesley was kidnapped by her husband for allegedly writing anti- Hanoverian letters. Instead, Van Goch allowed Capitein to study theology and became a Christian minister and the first African to be ordained by the Dutch Reformed Church, who later spread the written word to his native Ghana. Ghanaian boy who was enslaved and later brought to the Netherlands, where he ostensibly was to live as a servant to a Jacobus van Goch, a trader with the Dutch West India Company. Īmerican castaway who lived on the uninhabited Roatán island for 16 months, where he went into hiding to avoid trouble with pirates. He was released following a prisoner exchange and returned to Massachusetts, where he later became a Congregational minister. He was held captive in Canada, where Jesuits attempted to convert him to Catholicism. His story later served as an inspiration for the novel Robinson Crusoe.Īmerican boy who was kidnapped during a raid by French soldier and their Native American accomplices on February 29, 1704. Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who was presumed lost at sea, but was later found alive living on an uninhabited island, where he was stranded as a castaway after being marooned by his captain.
Gannibal went on to have an illustrious career as a nobleman and military engineer until his death in 1785. However, Tsar Peter the Great took a liking to him for his intelligence and military potential, and thus, Abram was made his godson. Īfrican boy enslaved to be servant to Dutch politician Adriaan van Bredehoff, best known for posing together with his master for a portrait by Nikolaas Verkolje, which today is on exhibit in the Westfries Museum.Įthiopian son of a prince who was captured by Ottomans and later sold as a slave to the Russian Empire.
He resurfaced two years later and said that he had been kidnapped. William Harrison disappeared on 16 August 1660 from the town of Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, and was thought to have been murdered. He and several other consorts were later kidnapped and murdered, allegedly because they disagreed with a fellow boyar's plans for an anti-Ottoman uprising. Wallachian scholar, poet and statesman known for bringing on a cultural revival in the nation. As a result, she became a prominent figure during the Sultanate of Women. Russian girl kidnapped and later sold as a slave by the Tatars to the Ottoman Imperial Harem, later becoming a wife of Sultan Ibrahim. He then went on to rebuild his business and involve himself in Wallachian and Moldavian politics before his disappearance and likely execution in 1601.
He fled to Istanbul, where he was briefly detained as a galley slave before he was released. Īndronikos Kantakouzenos was an Ottoman Greek entrepreneur and political figure who was persecuted by the Ottoman Empire for anti-Ottoman rhetoric. There, she was ordered to serve as an interpreter and intermediary for Pedro de Heredia, working for him until her death in 1538. Indigenous Colombian girl who was kidnapped by Spanish conquistador Diego de Nicuesa and sent to Santo Domingo to learn the Spanish language. The couple went on to have five children, but little is known about her activities as a consort. Jadwiga to be forcefully married to Przemysł I of Greater Poland. Daughter of Henry II the Pious who was kidnapped by her brother Bolesław II the Horned from the Sanctuary of St.
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