Abd al-Rahman and a small selection of his family fled Damascus, where the center of Umayyad power had been ; people moving with him include his brother Yahiya, his four-year old son Sulayman, and some of his sisters, as well as his former Greek slave ( a freedman ), Bedr.

Revolts soon broke out and the country descended into near anarchy, with a series of transient presidents until March 1847, when General Faustin Soulouque, a former slave who had fought in the rebellion of 1791, became President.

His father was a Cherokee Indian, and his mother was a former slave of mixed Cherokee, African-American, and French-American descent.

Six candidates, including Mauritania's first female and first Haratine ( former slave family ) candidates, represented a wide variety of political goals and backgrounds.

Several factors conspired to merge the status of former slaves and former free farmers into a dependent class of such coloni: it was possible to be described as servus et colonus, " both slave and colonus ".

The Yarubid dynasty expanded, acquiring former Portuguese colonies in East Africa and engaging in the slave trade.

His father's background as a former slave, and his personal awareness of social injustices transformed Robeson into a political activist.

* St. Paul Baptist Church-Founded in 1867 by former slave Elijah Barnes, registered at the state and federal level as the second oldest African American Baptist Church in the state.

The writer of the later text identifies himself as a former slave.

In 2011, production began on Django Unchained, about the revenge of a slave on his former master.

The genus was named after a former slave from Surinam, Graman Quassi in the eighteenth century.

Mujahed al-Din Bihruz, a former greek slave who had been appointed the military governor of northern Mesopotamia for his service to the Seljuks had reprimanded Ayyub for giving Zengi refuge and in 1137, he banished Ayyub from Tikrit after his brother Asad al-Din Shirkuh killed a friend of Bihruz in an honour killing.

Good Things to Eat was published in 1911 ; the author, Rufus Estes, was a former slave who worked for the Pullman railway car service.

She was given to Tanaquil, wife of king Tarquinius, and though slave was treated with the respect due her former status.

Francis Bok, former Sudanese slave.

His wife's name is Fortunata, a former slave and chorus girl.

According to the historian Robin Blackburn, the words " the hireling and slave " allude to the fact that the British attackers had many ex-slaves in their ranks, who had been promised liberty and demanded to be placed in the battle line " where they might expect to meet their former masters ".

In that same election no candidate for Vice President secured a majority in the electoral college as Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Richard Mentor Johnson did not receive the electoral votes of Democratic electors from Virginia, because of his relationship with a former slave.

They nominated the former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass for Vice President.

Kaleb installed a native Himyarite viceroy, Sumyafa ' Ashwa ', who ruled until 525, when he was deposed by the Aksumite general ( or soldier and former slave ) Abraha with the support of disgruntled Ethiopian soldiers.

* Ziryab, Persian poet, musician & former slave in Spain

There is evidence to suggest that Tubman and her group stopped at the home of abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass.

The Knight case was decided in favor of the plaintiff, the former slave.

Daisy Kennedy was born in Washington, D. C. on January 4, 1879, and was the daughter of a former American slave.

Danish forces were heavily engaged in the former Yugoslavia in the UN Protection Force ( UNPROFOR ), with IFOR, and now SFOR.

The Supreme Court of California, in affirming the disbarment, held that Rosenthal engaged in transactions involving undisclosed conflicts of interest, took positions adverse to his former clients, overstated expenses, double-billed for legal fees, failed to return client files, failed to provide access to records, failed to give adequate legal advice, failed to provide clients with an opportunity to obtain independent counsel, filed fraudulent claims, gave false testimony, engaged in conduct designed to harass his clients, delayed court proceedings, obstructed justice and abused legal process.

The ELM, under the leadership of Hamid Idris Awate, a former Eritrean Ascari, engaged in clandestine political activities intended to cultivate resistance to the centralizing policies of the imperial Ethiopian state.

Hoxha first tried to convince Shehu to step aside voluntarily, but when this move failed, Hoxha arranged for all the members of the Politburo to rebuke him for allowing his son to become engaged to the daughter of a former bourgeois family.

After exiting office, former prime ministers of Canada have engaged in various pursuits.

On December 20, 2010, Twain's manager confirmed that Twain was engaged to Swiss Frédéric Thiébaud ( the ex-husband of her former best friend ), an executive at Nestlé.

Fighting broke out again in June 1997 when Lissouba engaged militias loyal to former President Col. Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Congolese Labor Party ( PCT ) in Brazzaville, accusing the former president of an attempted coup.

Two former rebel leaders, Xiang Yu ( d. 202 BCE ) of Chu and Liu Bang ( d. 195 BCE ) of Han, engaged in a war to decide who would become hegemon of China, which had fissured into 18 kingdoms, each claiming allegiance to either Xiang Yu or Liu Bang.

The former people, however, do not at first seem to have offered any obstacle to their progress ; but as early as 580 BCE we find the Selinuntines engaged in hostilities with the people of Segesta ( a non-Hellenic city ), whose territory bordered on their own.

On July 24, 1996 Aidid and his militia engaged in battle with the forces of warlords and former Aidid allies Ali Mahdi Muhammad and Osman Ali Atto.

In Moscow, Bakunin soon became friends with a group of former university students, and engaged in the systematic study of Idealist philosophy, grouped around the poet Nikolay Stankevich, “ the bold pioneer who opened to Russian thought the vast and fertile continent of German metaphysics ” ( E. H. Carr ).

During that time, the Elves of Middle-earth were engaged in a bitter fight with Morgoth's former servant Sauron, who had become the second Dark Lord.

He again had little money, and while bedridden with a fever learned from a letter that Elisabeth, the former object of his affection, was engaged to a cavalry officer.

Isidore Franckel wanted a well known non-Jewish lawyer as co-counsel and engaged Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, a flamboyant Corsican, leading anti-fascist activist and a former Education Minister in Radical government of Édouard Herriot and a Yiddish-speaking lawyer, Serge Weill-Goudchaux, as his associate.

Indeed Charles, feeling personally humiliated by the events of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, especially the Raid on the Medway, had only engaged himself in the Triple Alliance in order to create a rift between the Dutch and the French, two former allies.

With the support of the lower classes, they engaged Spain in the Spanish American wars of independence ( 1810 – 1826 ), which ended with the break-up of former Spanish Empire in America into a number of independent republics.

" Headed by president John A. Nuetzel, himself former president of the River Bend Association, ( a zoning watchdog ) the members passed the hat at neighborhood meetings, engaged legal help, drew up metes and bounds and forced several unsuccessful votes for incorporation.

Besides the feuds he had with officers in the Army, Lilburne soon engaged in a quarrel with two of his former fellow sufferers.

Fayed's former spokesman Michael Cole has claimed that the couple had become engaged before their deaths.

On April 29, 1878, a posse including the Jesse Evans Gang and the Seven Rivers Warriors, under the direction of former Brady deputy George W. Peppin, engaged McNab, Ab Saunders and Frank Coe in a shootout at the Fritz Ranch.

The left voted overwhelmingly to retain the junta imposed republic because the former king was perceived by them as having engaged in political interference far beyond the scope of the monarchical prerogative.

In 2006 Knight was engaged in another dispute with former friend and ex-associate Snoop Dogg after Snoop insulted him in Rolling Stone.