List of known slaves in the Oregon Territory, most brought on the Oregon Trail from Missouri between 1843-1853.
List compiled by Greg Nokes.
OREGON SLAVES
| Known Slaves | County | Year Arrived |
| Rachel Belden | Marion | 1843 |
| unknown child* | n/a | 1843 |
| Robin Holmes | Polk | 1844 |
| Polly Holmes | Polk | 1844 |
| Harriett Holmes | Polk | 1844 |
| Celi Ann Holmes | Polk | 1844 |
| Mary Jane Holmes | Polk | 1844 |
| James Holmes | Polk | — |
| Roxanna Holmes | Polk | — |
| Scott | Polk | 1844 |
| Hannah Gorman | Polk | 1844 |
| Eliza Gorman | Polk | 1844 |
| Maria Scott | Polk | 1846 |
| Johnson | Polk | 1846 |
| John Waldo slaves | Marion | 1846 |
| Ame or Annie | Benton | 1847 |
| Travis Johnson | Marion | 1849 |
| Cora Cox | Linn | 1850 |
| Adeline Cox (infant) | Linn | — |
| Rosie | Douglas | 1852 |
| Louis Southworth | Benton** | 1853 |
| Louis’ mother | unknown | 1853 |
| Amanda Johnson | Linn | 1853 |
| Benjamin Johnson | Linn | 1853 |
| Tom Davis | Marion | 1853 |
| Susan Davis | Marion | 1853 |
| Alice | Linn | unknown |
| Reuben Shipley | Benton | 1853 |
| Alfred Drake | Marion | unknown |
| Elizabeth Drake | Marion | unknown |
| Mary Drake | Marion | unknown |
| Lon Drake | Marion | unknown |
| Joseph Drake | Marion | unknown |
| Drake child | Marion | unknown |
| 2 James Abbott slaves*** | Josephine | 1853 |
| Probable Slaves | County | Year Arrived |
| Luteshia Carson | Benton | 1845 |
| Carson (infant) | Benton | 1845 |
| America Waldo | Marion | 1846**** |
| America’s mother | Marion | 1846 |
| Tilly | Polk | unknown |
| John Livingstone | Clackamas | 1864 |
| Possible Slaves | County | Year Arrived |
| Caesar Taylor | Benton | unknown |
| Known Slaves, Washington | County | Year Arrived |
| Monimia Travers | Clark***** | 1850 |
| Charles Mitchell | Thurston | 1855 |
List compiled from miscellaneous sources, including census and court records, emigrant accounts, newspaper articles, and family histories. It is by no means comprehensive, as the author found references to slaves who were not named, and some African Americans listed as servants in census records may have been slaves, but are not listed here. The author counted children who came to Oregon as slaves, but, in most cases, not those born in Oregon to a slave parent.
Exceptions were James and Roxanna Holmes, who were named in a court case, and Adeline Cox, listed as a slave in the 1860 Census. Some slaves were freed soon after arriving in Oregon; others held longer.
* The unidentified girl drowned near The Dalles during the 1843 emigration.
** Southworth lived in several counties. Others were Polk, Jackson and Lincoln.
*** Their Oregon-born children are known. They were Louisa and Peter Waldo. Following the shooting death of their father, Peter was apprenticed by court order to Joseph Lane, formerly Oregon’s first territorial governor and a U.S. senator.
**** The year America and mother arrived in Oregon is uncertain.
***** Clark County was part of the Oregon Territory in 1850; the Washington Territory was established in 1853.