Frederick Douglass IV

Frederick Douglass IV

male, 28 years old (TALBOT)
Anacostia, slave, abolitionist, American, author, orator
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....
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

male, 47 years old (United States)
President of the United States, assassinated, Civil War, Gettysburg Address, abolition of slavery, Republican
Reviews Lincoln's early years as a farmer and his significant impact on U.S. agriculture, including the establishment of the USDA and the...
John Brown

John Brown

male, deceased (1859)
Harpers Ferry Armory, american civil war, executions by the United States, republican party, calvinist, Postmaster…abolitionist
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

William Lloyd Garrison

male, deceased (1879)
American newspaper publisher, American newspaper founder, journalist, abolitionist, American, the liberator
William Lloyd Garrison (December 12, 1805-May 24, 1879) was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best...
Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman

female, deceased (1913) (Dorchester)
freedom fighter, stood up for what she believed in, inspiration to women everywhere, African-American, African-American history, wartime spy…abolitionist
Harriet Tubman (1820 - 1913) escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 and traveled north. She then helped hundreds of other slaves flee to the north to...
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

female, deceased (1896)
Beecher family, American women writer, Women novelist, Congregationalist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, from Hartford, Connecticut…abolitionist
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was a white American abolitionist and novelist, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery;...
Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

female, deceased (1883)
Feminist, abolitionist, suffragist, American women's rights activist, feminism, inspirations to women everywhere
Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American abolitionist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New...
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

male, deceased (1790)
inventor, Founding Father of the United States, Signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, lightning rod, electricity, great scientist
Benjamin Franklin (April 17 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist,...
William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce

male, deceased (1833) (Houston, Texas, United States)
Evangelical Anglican, Tory MP, Clapham Sect, buried at Westminster Abbey, politician, slave trade…abolitionist
William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 - 29 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and abolitionist who led the parliamentary campaign...
Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony

female, deceased (1906)
Baldwin, Evarts, Hoar & Sherman family, susan brownell anthony, Feminist, American women's rights activist, suffragist, skeptic…abolitionist
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906) was a prominent, independent and well-educated American civil rights leader who played...