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ANA GALLUM
Ana Gallum or Nansi Wiggins (died after 1811), was an American planter..

She was born in Senegal in Africa and became a victim of the Atlantic slave trade. She is first recorded as a slave of the planter Don Joseph "Job" Wiggins in Florida. She was the slave mistress of Wiggins, and had six children with him. Wiggins eventually manumitted her, and married her in Rollestown in 1781. However, the wedding ceremony was not acknowledged by the authorities in then Spanish Florida because it was not a Catholic ceremony. Her daughters married rich white men.

In 1797, Wiggins died. Upon his death, Ana Gallum became a slave owner herself and managed his plantation in cooperation with her sons. Because Wiggins died without a will and their non-Catholic wedding ceremony was not recognized by the Spanish authorities, Ana's legal right to the Wiggins' property was questioned, and she processed against the authorities through a legal representative, being illiterate. In 1801, Ana Gallum won the case and secured the right of herself and her children to the plantation and slaves of her late husband.