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