Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano

male, deceased (1797)
African-English, Nigerian American, caribbean, north pole, abolitionist, eighteenth century
Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 - 31 March 1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the...
Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

male, deceased (1887)
Beecher family, buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Anti-catholicism, death by cerebral hemorrhage, Bleeding Kansas, Amherst College alumni…abolitionist
Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887) was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer,...
Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker

male, deceased (1860)
Gettysburg Address, Harvard Divinity School alumni, transcendentalist, slavery, abolitionist, emerson
Theodore Parker (August 24 1810, Lexington, Massachusetts - May 10 1860, Florence, Italy) was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister...

David Walker

male, deceased (1830)
activist, black pride, slavery, slave, American, African American…abolitionist
David Walker was an American black abolitionist, most famous for his pamphlet "Walker's Appeal", which called for black pride, demanded the...
Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali

male, 67 years old
boxer, cassius clay, Parkinson's disease, convert to islam, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr, From Louisville, Kentucky…abolitionist
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and former three-time World Heavyweight Champion and...
Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe

female, deceased (1910)
Julia Ward, William Greene, Perkins Institute for the Blind, American women writer, Lieutenant colonel, Pacifist…abolitionist
Julia Ward Howe (May 271819 - October 171910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of "The...
John Jay

John Jay

male, deceased (1894)
Columbia University, from New York City, Columbia University alumni, republican party, Non-fiction writer, lawyer…abolitionist
John Jay (1817-94) was an American lawyer and diplomat, son of William Jay and a grandson of Chief Justice John Jay. He was born in New York...
John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier

male, deceased (1892)
quaker, From Haverhill, Massachusetts, Victorian, hymn, new england, slavery…abolitionist
John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 - September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in...
Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone

female, deceased (1893)
Mount Holyoke College alumni, marriage, Henry B. Blackwell, Henry Brown Blackwell, Mount Holyoke College alumnae, from Worcester County, Massachusetts…abolitionist
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...
Gerrit Smith

Gerrit Smith

male, deceased (1874)
from New York, philanthropist, abolitionist, American, politician, from Utica, New York
Gerrit Smith (March 6, 1797 - December 28, 1874) was a leading United States social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist. He was...