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List of African-American abolitionists

Index List of African-American abolitionists

* James Presley Ball. [1]

58 relations: Abolitionism in the United States, Anna Murray-Douglass, Austin Steward, Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, Charles Bennett Ray, Charles Henry Langston, Charles Lenox Remond, Charles Remond Douglass, David Ruggles, David Walker (abolitionist), Denmark Vesey, Dred Scott, Eliza Ann Gardner, Ellen and William Craft, Frances Harper, Frederick Douglass, Gabriel Prosser, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Harriet Forten Purvis, Harriet Tubman, Henry Highland Garnet, Henry Moxley, Hetty Reckless, James Forten, James McCune Smith, James Presley Ball, James W.C. Pennington, Jermain Wesley Loguen, John Brown Russwurm, John Mercer Langston, John Parker (abolitionist), Lewis Hayden, List of abolitionists, Lucy Stanton (abolitionist), Margaretta Forten, Maria W. Stewart, Martin Delany, Mary Meachum, Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, Moses Dickson, Nat Turner, Nathaniel Booth (slave), Peter H. Clark, Philip Alexander Bell, Robert Purvis, Samuel Cornish, Sheila White (abolitionist), Slavery in the United States, Sojourner Truth, Susan Paul, ..., Texas Revolution, Theodore S. Wright, Thomas Dalton (abolitionist), Thomas James (minister), Underground Railroad, William Cooper Nell, William Still, William Whipper. Expand index (8 more) »

Abolitionism in the United States

Abolitionism in the United States was the movement before and during the American Civil War to end slavery in the United States.

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Anna Murray-Douglass

Anna Murray-Douglass (1813 – August 4, 1882) was an American abolitionist, member of the Underground Railroad, and the first wife of American social reformer and statesman Frederick Douglass, from 1838 to her death.

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Austin Steward

Austin Steward (1793 – February 15, 1869) was an African-American abolitionist and author.

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Benjamin "Pap" Singleton

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton (1809–1892) was an American activist and businessman best known for his role in establishing African American settlements in Kansas.

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Charles Bennett Ray

Charles Bennett Ray (December 25, 1807 – August 15, 1886) was a prominent African-American abolitionist, the owner and editor of the weekly newspaper The Colored American, and a notable journalist and clergyman.

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Charles Henry Langston

Charles Henry Langston (1817–1892) was an American abolitionist and political activist who was active in Ohio and later in Kansas, during and after the American Civil War, where he worked for black suffrage and other civil rights.

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Charles Lenox Remond

Charles Lenox Remond (February 1, 1810 – December 22, 1873) was an American orator, activist and abolitionist based in Massachusetts.

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Charles Remond Douglass

Charles Remond Douglass (October 21, 1844 – November 23, 1920) is the third and youngest son of Frederick Douglass and his first wife Anna Murray Douglass.

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David Ruggles

David Ruggles (March 15, 1810 – December 16, 1849) was an African-American abolitionist in Manhattan, New York who resisted slavery by his participation in a Committee of Vigilance and the Underground Railroad to aid fugitive slaves reach free states.

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David Walker (abolitionist)

David Walker (September 28, 1796August 6, 1830) was an African-American abolitionist, writer and anti-slavery activist.

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Denmark Vesey

Denmark Vesey (also Telemaque) (1767 – July 2, 1822) was a literate, skilled carpenter and leader among African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Dred Scott

Dred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott case." Scott claimed that he and his wife should be granted their freedom because they had lived in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory for four years, where slavery was illegal.

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Eliza Ann Gardner

Eliza Ann Gardner (May 28, 1831 – January 4, 1922) was an African-American abolitionist and religious leader from Boston, Massachusetts.

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Ellen and William Craft

Ellen Craft (1826–1891) and William Craft (September 25, 1824 – January 29, 1900) were slaves from Macon, Georgia in the United States who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.

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Frances Harper

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author.

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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Gabriel Prosser

Gabriel (1776 – October 10, 1800), today commonly—if incorrectly—known as Gabriel Prosser, was a literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in the summer of 1800.

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Harriet Ann Jacobs

Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and was later freed.

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Harriet Forten Purvis

Harriet Forten Purvis (1810 June 11, 1875) was an African-American abolitionist and first generation suffragette.

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Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and political activist.

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Henry Highland Garnet

Henry Highland Garnet (December 23, 1815 – February 13, 1882) was an African-American abolitionist, minister, educator and orator.

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Henry Moxley

Henry Moxley (1809-1878) was an African-American businessman, religious leader and activist in Buffalo, New York.

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Hetty Reckless

Amy Hester "Hetty" Reckless (1776 – January 28, 1881) was a runaway slave who became part of the American abolitionist movement.

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James Forten

James Forten (September 2, 1766March 4, 1842) was an African American abolitionist and wealthy businessman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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James McCune Smith

James McCune Smith (April 18, 1813 – November 17, 1865) was an African-American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author.

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James Presley Ball

James Presley Ball, Sr. (1825 – May 4, 1904) was a prominent African-American photographer, abolitionist, and businessman.

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James W.C. Pennington

James William Charles Pennington (c. 1807 – October 22, 1870) was an African-American orator, minister, writer, and abolitionist active in Brooklyn, New York.

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Jermain Wesley Loguen

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John Brown Russwurm

John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851) was an abolitionist, newspaper publisher, and colonizer of Liberia where he moved from the United States.

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John Mercer Langston

John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 – November 15, 1897) was an abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician in the United States.

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John Parker (abolitionist)

John P. Parker (1827 – January 30, 1900) was an American abolitionist, inventor, iron moulder and industrialist.

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Lewis Hayden

Lewis Hayden (December 2, 1811 – April 7, 1889) was an African-American leader who escaped with his family from slavery in Kentucky; they moved to Boston, where he became an abolitionist and lecturer, businessman, and politician.

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List of abolitionists

This is a listing of notable opponents of slavery, often called abolitionists.

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Lucy Stanton (abolitionist)

Lucy Stanton (Day Sessions) (1831–1910) was an American abolitionist and feminist figure, notable for being the first African American woman to complete a four-year course of a study at a college or university.

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Margaretta Forten

Margaretta Forten (1806-1875) was an African-American suffragist and abolitionist.

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Maria W. Stewart

Maria W. Stewart (Maria Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was an American domestic servant who became a teacher, journalist, lecturer, abolitionist, and women's rights activist.

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Martin Delany

Martin Robison Delany (May 6, 1812January 24, 1885) was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, soldier and writer, and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism.

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Mary Meachum

Mary Meachum (1801–1869) was an American abolitionist who, with her husband John Berry Meachum, helped enslaved people escape to freedom in the Underground Railroad, and by purchasing their freedom.

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Mifflin Wistar Gibbs

Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (17 April 1823 – 11 July 1915) was an African-American lawyer, judge, diplomat, and banker.

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Moses Dickson

Moses Dickson (1824-1901) was an American abolitionist, soldier, minister and founder of the secret organization The Knights of Liberty which planned a slave uprising in the United States and helped African-American enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

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Nat Turner

Nat Turner (October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831) was an American slave who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831.

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Nathaniel Booth (slave)

Nathaniel Booth (1826 – 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) African American, escaped slave.

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Peter H. Clark

Peter Humphries Clark (March 29, 1829 – June 21, 1925) was one of Ohio's most effective black abolitionist writers and speakers.

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Philip Alexander Bell

Philip Alexander Bell (1808-1886) was a 19th century American newspaper editor and abolitionist.

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Robert Purvis

Robert Purvis (August 4, 1810 – April 15, 1898) was an American abolitionist in the United States.

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Samuel Cornish

Samuel Eli Cornish (1795 – 6 November 1858) was an American Presbyterian minister, abolitionist, publisher, and journalist.

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Sheila White (abolitionist)

Sheila White (born 1988) is an African-American abolitionist and a former human trafficking victim from The Bronx, New York City.

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Slavery in the United States

Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth (born Isabella (Belle) Baumfree; – November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist.

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Susan Paul

Susan Paul (1809–1841) was an African-American abolitionist from Boston, Massachusetts.

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Texas Revolution

The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Texas Mexicans) in putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico.

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Theodore S. Wright

Theodore Sedgwick Wright (1797–1847) was an African-American abolitionist and minister who was active in New York City, where he led the First Colored Presbyterian Church as its second pastor.

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Thomas Dalton (abolitionist)

Thomas Dalton (1794–1883) was a free African American raised in Massachusetts who was dedicated to improving the lives of people of color.

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Thomas James (minister)

Thomas James (1804–1891) was a former slave who became an African Methodist Episcopal Zion minister, abolitionist, administrator and author.

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Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

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William Cooper Nell

William Cooper Nell (December 16, 1816 – May 25, 1874) was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, publisher, author, and civil servant of Boston, Massachusetts, who worked for integration of schools and public facilities in the state.

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William Still

William Still (October 7, 1821 – July 14, 1902) was an African-American abolitionist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, conductor on the Underground Railroad, businessman, writer, historian and civil rights activist.

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William Whipper

William Whipper (February 22, 1804 – March 9, 1876) was an African-American abolitionist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_abolitionists

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