| | | Frederick Douglass (February 14, 1818 - February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called... | | John Brown (May 9, 1800 - December 2, 1859) was the first white American abolitionist to advocate and practice insurrection as a means to the... | | William Lloyd Garrison (December 12, 1805-May 24, 1879) was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best... | | Benjamin Franklin (April 17 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist,... | | Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American abolitionist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New... | | Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was a white American abolitionist and novelist, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery;... | | William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 - 29 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and abolitionist who led the parliamentary campaign... | | Harriet Tubman (circa 1822-March 10, 1913), was an African-American abolitionist. As an escaped slave, she made thirteen missions to rescue over... | | Thomas Paine (Thetford, England, 29 January 1737 - 8 June 1809, New York City, USA) was a pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, and intellectual.... | | Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906) was a prominent, independent and well-educated American civil rights leader who played... | |