Joseph Stephanini

Joseph Stephanini (Greek: Ιωσήφ Στεφανίνις; 1803–?) was an Ottoman Greek author and runaway slave. He migrated to the United States. He wrote The Personal Narrative of the Sufferings of J. Stephanini pleading to the American people to raise money to free his family from the bondage of slavery. The book began to circulate in the United States in the early 1830s. Many American's learned about the horrors of Ottoman slavery. The Greek Slave Movement evolved and American abolitionists used the subject matter. The most notable subject of the Greek Slave Movement was The Greek Slave statue by Hiram Powers.