List of African-American abolitionists
- James Presley Baall
- Peter H. Clark
- Samuel Cornish
- Ellen and William Craft
- Thomas Dalton
- Martin Delany (1812–1885)[1]
- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), orator, ex-slave[2]
- James Forten
- Margaretta Forten
- Henry Highland Garnet
- Frances Harper
- Lewis Hayden
- Harriet Jacobs, former slave, author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
- Thomas James (abolitionist)
- Charles Henry Langston
- John Mercer Langston
- Terry Loguen
- John Parker
- Susan Paul (1809–1841), social activist and author
- James W.C. Pennington
- Gabriel Prosser
- Harriet Forten Purvis
- Robert Purvis
- Charles Lenox Remond
- David Ruggles
- John Brown Russwurm
- Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
- James McCune Smith
- Lee T. Smith, a confederate liberator who gave the most help to Harriet Tubman.
- Lucy Stanton
- Austin Steward
- Maria W. Stewart
- William Still
- Sojourner Truth (1797?-1883), ex-slave
- Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), ex-slave, writer
- Nat Turner
- Denmark Vesey
- David Walker
- William Whipper
- Sheila White
- Theodore S. Wright
- Jermain W. Logue(n)
See also
- List of notable opponents of slavery
- Abolitionism
- History of slavery in the United States
- Underground Railroad
- Texas Revolution