List of abolitionists
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This is a listing of notable opponents of slavery, often called abolitionists.
Groups
- African Methodist Episcopal Church (American)
- American Anti-Slavery Society (American)
- American Missionary Association (American)
- Anti-Slavery International (British)
- Anti-Slavery Society (British)
- California Against Slavery (American)
- Chab Dai (Cambodian)
- Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (American)
- Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (British)
- Face to Face Bulgaria (Bulgarian)
- Free Soil Party (American)
- Free-Staters (Kansas) (American)
- Free the Slaves (American)
- Jayhawkers (American)
- Ing Makababaying Aksyon (Filipino)
- International Justice Mission (American)
- Liberty Party (United States, 1840)
- Maiti Nepal (Nepal)
- New York Manumission Society (American)
- New England Anti-Slavery Society (American)
- Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society (American)
- Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
- Republican Party (United States) (American)
- Royal Navy (British)
- Somaly Mam Foundation (Cambodian)
- Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage (American)
- Society of the Friends of the Blacks (Société des Amis des Noirs) (French)
- The Emancipation Network (International)
- Unitarian Universalists
- Visayan Forum Foundation (Filipino)
Individuals
John Brown (1800-1859), abolitionist who advocated armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery. He organized the Pottawatomie massacre (1856) and was later executed for leading an unsuccessful 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
The future Viscountess Simon was knighted in 1933 for her efforts to combat remnants of chattel slavery in the British Empire.
William Wilberforce (1759-1833), leading English abolitionst, led Parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade. Campaigned for the end of slavery in British Empire, dying three days after hearing the passage of the Act through Parliament assured.
Harriet Jacobs was a former slave turned abolitionist who wrote the influential Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
- Muhammad Abduh (Egyptian)
- Abigail Adams (American Presidential Wife and activist)
- John Adams (American President)
- John Quincy Adams (American President), had a long history of opposing slavery
- Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German/British)
- Bronson Alcott (American)
- Louisa May Alcott (American)
- George William Alexander (British)
- Richard Allen (former slave, American Methodist)
- William Allen (British Quaker)
- Susan B. Anthony (American)
- Berthold Auerbach (German Jewish Author)[1]
- Gamaliel Bailey (American)
- Henry Ward Beecher (American)
- Anthony Benezet (American)
- Ramón Emeterio Betances (Puerto Rican)
- Henry Bibb, publisher Voice of the Fugitive newspaper (Canadian)
- John Bingham, Jayhawker and Senator (American)
- Thomas Binney (British)
- James Gillespie Birney (American)
- William Birney (American)
- Simon Bolivar (Venezuelan)
- William Henry Brisbane (American)
- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (British)
- George Brown (Canadian)
- John Brown (American)
- William Wells Brown (American)
- Thomas Burchell (British Jamaican)
- Ansar Burney (Pakistani activist)
- Aaron Burr (American politician)
- Benjamin Butler (American)
- Thomas Fowell Buxton (British)
- Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari, Pope Gregory XVI (Italian)
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary, publisher Provincial Freeman newspaper (Canadian)
- Ramón Castilla, politician (Peruvian president)
- Antônio de Castro Alves (Brazilian)
- Elizabeth Buffum Chace (American activist)
- Elizabeth Margaret Chandler American writer and journalist, columnist.
- Zachariah Chandler (American)
- Maria Weston Chapman (American)
- Salmon P. Chase (American)
- Lydia Maria Child (American)
- Ward Chipman (Canadian)
- John Clarkson (British)
- Thomas Clarkson (British)
- Cassius Marcellus Clay (American)
- Levi Coffin (American)
- Josiah Conder (British)
- Samuel Cornish (Presbyterian of African heritage, American)
- John Cropper, Liverpudlian trader and philanthropist, son of James
- Ottobah Cugoano (African/British)
- Cyrus the Great (Achaemenid Persian King of Kings)
- Henry Winter Davis (American)
- Thomas Day (British)
- Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (French)
- Martin Delany (son of a slave, American)
- Charles Dickens (British)
- Richard Dillingham (American)
- Frederick Douglass (former slave, American politician)
- David Einhorn (American rabbi)
- Edward James Eliot (British)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (American)
- Olaudah Equiano former slave taken from modern day Nigeria (British)
- Calvin Fairbank (American)
- Guillaume de Félice (French)
- John Gregg Fee (American)
- Charles Finney (American)
- Charles Follen (German)
- Charlotte Forten (American)
- James Forten (American)
- Abby Kelley Foster (American)
- Stephen Symonds Foster (American)
- Benjamin Franklin (American)
- Amos Noë Freeman (American)
- John C. Frémont (American)
- Henry Highland Garnet (American)
- Thomas Garrett (American)
- William Lloyd Garrison (American)
- Jack Gladstone (Demeraran slave)
- Olympe de Gouges (French)
- Ulysses Grant (American)
- Horace Greeley (American)
- Henri Grégoire (French)
- Angelina Grimké (American)
- Sarah Moore Grimké (American)
- Vicente Guerrero (Mexican)
- Alexander Hamilton (American)
- Hannibal Hamlin (American)
- Theophilus Harrington (American)
- Laura Smith Haviland (American)
- Lewis Hayden (former slave, American)
- Michael Heilprin (American rabbi)
- Hinton Rowan Helper (enemy of slaveowners, American)
- Elizabeth Heyrick (British)
- James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (American)
- Elias Hicks (American)
- Miguel Hidalgo (Mexican)
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson (American)
- Pope Benedict XIV (Italian)
- José Hilario López (Colombian)
- Thomas S. Hinde (American)
- Isaac Hopper (American)
- Julia Ward Howe (American)
- Pope Pius VII (Italian)
- Samuel Gridley Howe (American)
- Thaddeus Hyatt (American)
- Pope Gregory XIV (Italian)
- Robert G. Ingersoll (American)
- Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil
- Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) (American), escaped from slavery, became an abolitionist speaker. Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
- John Jay (American)
- Samuel Johnson (British)
- Absalom Jones (American)
- Ioannis Kapodistrias (Greek)
- Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi (Syrian)
- Abby Kelley (American)
- Joseph Ketley (British)
- William Knibb (British)
- Gustav Koerner (German American)
- James H. Lane (Senator) (American)
- Benjamin Lay (American)
- Hart Leavitt (American), Underground Railroad operator, Massachusetts[2]
- Joshua Leavitt (American), editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Emancipator
- Roger Hooker Leavitt (American), Underground Railroad operator, Massachusetts[3]
- Abraham Lincoln (American President)
- David Livingstone (Scottish)
- Toussaint L'Ouverture (former slave, a commander of the Haitian Revolution)
- Jermain Loguen (former slave, American)
- Elijah Lovejoy (American)
- James Russell Lowell (American)
- Maria White Lowell (American)
- Henry G. Ludlow (American)
- Benjamin Lundy (American)
- Zachary Macaulay (British)
- Karl Marx[4] (German)
- Samuel Joseph May (American)
- Philip Mazzei (Italian)
- Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham (British)
- José Gregorio Monagas (Venezuelan)
- Hannah More (British)
- José María Morelos (Mexican)
- Lucretia Mott (American)
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (British)
- Joaquim Nabuco (Brazilian)
- John Newton, former slave merchant (British)
- Richard Oastler (British)
- Daniel O'Connell (Irish)
- James Edward Oglethorpe (English, founder of the Province of Georgia)
- Frederick Law Olmsted (American)
- Saint Acacius of Amida (Persian)
- Samuel Oughton (American), advocate of black labour rights in Jamaica)
- Thomas Paine (British born)
- John Parker (abolitionist) (former slave, American)
- Theodore Parker (American) (1810–1860), Unitarian minister and abolitionist whose words inspired speeches by Abraham Lincoln and later by Martin Luther King, Jr. ("The arc of the moral universe is long...")
- Francis Daniel Pastorius (German-American)
- José do Patrocínio (Brazilian)
- Pedro I of Brazil
- Pedro II of Brazil
- Wendell Phillips (American)
- James Shepherd Pike (American), journalist
- Mary Ellen Pleasant (American)
- Bishop Beilby Porteus (British)
- John Wesley Posey (American)
- Gabriel Prosser (insurrectionist, American slave)
- Harriet Forten Purvis, American
- Robert Purvis (American)
- James Ramsay (British)
- John Rankin (American)
- William Rathbone IV (British)
- André Rebouças (Brazilian)
- Charles Lenox Remond (American)
- Maximilien Robespierre (French)
- Ernestine Rose (American)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Genevan-French)
- Benjamin Rush (American)
- John Brown Russwurm (Jamaican/American)
- Ignatius Sancho (first ex-slave to vote, British)
- Victor Schœlcher (French)
- Arthur Schopenhauer[5] (German philosopher)
- Dred Scott (American slave)
- Samuel Sewall (American)
- William H. Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln (American)
- Granville Sharp (British)
- Samuel Sharpe (Jamaican)
- James Sherman (British)
- José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (Brazilian)
- Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon (British)
- Gerrit Smith (American)
- John Smith (British missionary to Demerara, Guyana)
- William Smith (British)
- Silas Soule (American)
- Herbert Spencer (British)
- Lysander Spooner (American lawyer)
- Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War under Lincoln (American)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (American)
- Henry Stanton (American)
- James Stephen (British lawyer)
- James Stephen (son) (British administrator)
- Thaddeus Stevens (American)
- Maria W. Stewart (American)
- William Still (American)
- Lucy Stone (American)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (American)
- Charles Sumner (American)
- Arthur Tappan (American)
- George Thompson (British)
- Henry David Thoreau (American)
- Henry Thornton (British)
- John Ton (Dutch-born American)
- Charles Turner Torrey (American)
- Joseph Tracy (American)
- John Harfield Tredgold (British)
- Sojourner Truth (American)
- Harriet Tubman abolitionist (American)
- Nat Turner insurrectionist, former slave (American)
- Denmark Vesey insurrectionist, former slave (American)
- Julio Vizcarrondo abolitionist (Spanish, born in Puerto Rico)
- Benjamin Wade (American)
- David Walker (abolitionist) (son of a slave, American)
- Samuel Ringgold Ward (born into slavery, American)
- Josiah Wedgwood (British) produced "Am I Not A Man And A Brother?" anti-slavery medallion
- Theodore Dwight Weld (American)
- John Wesley (British)
- Walt Whitman (American)
- John Greenleaf Whittier (American)
- William Wilberforce (British) Leading Parliamentary abolitionist
- Austin Willey (American newspaper editor)
- Henry Wilson (American Vice President)
- John Woolman (American Quaker)
- Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (Founder of Self Respect Movement in Southern India)
See also
- List of African-American abolitionists
- Abolitionism
- Abolitionism in the United Kingdom
- Abolitionism in the United States
- History of slavery
- History of slavery in the United States
- Radical Republicans
- Slavery
- Timeline of the African-American Civil Rights Movement
- Underground Railroad
References
- ↑ ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE JEWS, Max J. Kohler
- ↑ Hart and Mary Leavitt House, Charlemont, Massachusetts, National Park Service Network to Freedom Sites, nps.gov
- ↑ Roger Hooker and Keziah Leavitt House, Charlemont, Massachusetts, National Park Service Network to Freedom Sites, nps.gov
- ↑ http://www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm
- ↑ Parerga and Paralipomena Volume 2, 125
Further reading
- Frost, Karolyn Smardz; Osei, Kwasi (Cover design); South, Sunny (Cover art) (2007). I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-16481-2. ISBN 978-0-374-53125-6. Winner, 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction; Nominee (Nonfiction), National Books Critics Circle Award 2007. See, Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction.
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