About: Ana Gallum     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FAna_Gallum&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

Ana Gallum, also referred to as Nansi Wiggins (circa 1755 - 1840), was a Senegalese woman, who was enslaved in Florida, eventually becoming a slave owning planter herself. She was kidnapped from her homeland and brought to the Americas as a bondsperson. The beginning of her story is similar to millions of other Africans who fell victim to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and were subjected to the middle passage. Gallum's life, however, was different from most of them. She was freed after serving as a bondswoman for a short period of time, marrying her former owner ― an English-born planter ― and had six children with him. As a widow, Gallum would ultimately end up inheriting and owning numerous enslaved individuals herself, as well as owning and operating a plantation in what was then Spanish

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Ana Gallum (en)
  • Ana Gallum (sv)
rdfs:comment
  • Ana Gallum, also referred to as Nansi Wiggins (circa 1755 - 1840), was a Senegalese woman, who was enslaved in Florida, eventually becoming a slave owning planter herself. She was kidnapped from her homeland and brought to the Americas as a bondsperson. The beginning of her story is similar to millions of other Africans who fell victim to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and were subjected to the middle passage. Gallum's life, however, was different from most of them. She was freed after serving as a bondswoman for a short period of time, marrying her former owner ― an English-born planter ― and had six children with him. As a widow, Gallum would ultimately end up inheriting and owning numerous enslaved individuals herself, as well as owning and operating a plantation in what was then Spanish (en)
  • Ana Gallum eller Nansi Wiggins, död efter 1811, var en amerikansk affärsidkare. Hon var född i Senegal och noteras först i Florida som slav hos plantageägaren och indian-handlaren Don Joseph "Job" Wiggins. Hon fick sex barn med Wiggins, som så småningom frigav henne och gifte sig med henne i 1781. Vigseln erkändes dock inte av de spanska myndigheterna i dåvarande Spanska Florida eftersom den inte var katolsk. Hennes döttrar gifte sig med förmögna vita män. (sv)
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ana_Gallum.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Art_of_Ana_Gallum.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/United_States_Federal_Census_1840.jpg
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
thumbnail
has abstract
  • Ana Gallum, also referred to as Nansi Wiggins (circa 1755 - 1840), was a Senegalese woman, who was enslaved in Florida, eventually becoming a slave owning planter herself. She was kidnapped from her homeland and brought to the Americas as a bondsperson. The beginning of her story is similar to millions of other Africans who fell victim to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and were subjected to the middle passage. Gallum's life, however, was different from most of them. She was freed after serving as a bondswoman for a short period of time, marrying her former owner ― an English-born planter ― and had six children with him. As a widow, Gallum would ultimately end up inheriting and owning numerous enslaved individuals herself, as well as owning and operating a plantation in what was then Spanish Florida. Dr. Jane Landers, a historian and the leading researcher on Gallum, summarizes the life of Gallum: “Ana suffered rape and hardships on the Florida frontier, but was able to utilize legal and social resources in the Spanish world that enabled her to establish security”. (en)
  • Ana Gallum eller Nansi Wiggins, död efter 1811, var en amerikansk affärsidkare. Hon var född i Senegal och noteras först i Florida som slav hos plantageägaren och indian-handlaren Don Joseph "Job" Wiggins. Hon fick sex barn med Wiggins, som så småningom frigav henne och gifte sig med henne i 1781. Vigseln erkändes dock inte av de spanska myndigheterna i dåvarande Spanska Florida eftersom den inte var katolsk. Hennes döttrar gifte sig med förmögna vita män. Vid Wiggins död 1797 övertog hon hans stora plantage, som hon skötte i samarbete med sina söner, och blev själv slavägare. Eftersom Wiggins avled utan testamente och deras vigselceremoni inte ansågs giltig av spanjorerna, fick Ana Gallum driva ett flertal processer mot myndigheterna för att få rätten till hans egendom (via ombud, då hon själv var illitterat), men hennes och hennes barns arvsrätt erkändes slutligen år 1801. Hennes livsöde som en slav som blev slavägare var inte helt okänd i Florida, där fria färgade spelade en större roll än någon annanstans i USA förutom Louisiana, något som berodde på de spanska lagarna, som mildare för både slavar och fria färgade än de engelska, och hon anses tillsammans med Anna Kingsley vara en av de mer notabla exemplen på detta. (sv)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is Wikipage redirect of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 67 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software