Frederick Douglass IV

Frederick Douglass IV

male, 27 years old (TALBOT)
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1817 on a tobacco plantation in eastern Maryland. His mother was hired out when he was still an infant....
William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison

male, deceased (1879)
William Lloyd Garrison (December 12, 1805-May 24, 1879) was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best...
Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

male, deceased (1862)
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, de...
Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker

male, deceased (1860)
Theodore Parker (August 24 1810, Lexington, Massachusetts - May 10 1860, Florence, Italy) was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister...
Lysander Spooner

Lysander Spooner

male, deceased (1887)
Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 - May 14, 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, and...
Prince Hall

Prince Hall

male, deceased (1807)
Prince Hall (c.1735 - December 4, 1807) is considered the founder of "Black Freemasonry" in the United States, known today as Prince Hall...
John Wesley

John Wesley

male, deceased (1791)
John Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican minister and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. Methodism had...
Thomas Clarkson

Thomas Clarkson

male, deceased (1846)
Thomas Clarkson (28 March 1760 - 26 September 1846), abolitionist, was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England, and became a leading campaigner...
Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone

female, deceased (1893)
Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 - October 18, 1893, died at age 75) was a prominent American suffragist. She was the wife of abolitionist Henry Brown...
David Brion Davis

David Brion Davis

male, 82 years old
David Brion Davis (born February 16, 1927) is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He is noted for his study of slavery and...