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John Brown (abolitionist)
John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Leader of Haitian Revolution and first ruler of independent Haiti (1758-1806)
Ahmed ‘Urabi
Egyptian army officer and revolutionary (1841–1911)
Nat Turner
American slave rebellion leader (1800-1831)
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
revolutionary national liberation movement in Ottoman territories in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Juan Pablo Duarte
Presidente y libertador of the Dominican Republic (1813-1876)
Husein Gradaščević
Bosnian Muslim general (1802–1834)
Francisco del Rosario Sánchez
Dominican Republic politician (1817-1861)
Gregorio Luperón
Dominican military and state leader (1879-1997)
Joseph Cinqué
leader of La Amistad slave revolt
Matías Ramón Mella
Dominican Republic politician (1816-1864)
José Núñez de Cáceres
Dominican politician and writer
Abdullah Nadim
writer, poet, journalist, and a pioneer of Egyptian nationalism
Jeanne Merkus
Dutch guerilla fighter and activist (1839–1897)
Fernando Daquilem
Ecuadorian indigenous leader (1845-1872)
María Trinidad Sanchéz
Dominican freedom fighter; campaigner for the independence of the Dominican Republic
Carlota
Cuban slave, rebel leader
Peter Lalor
Australian politician (1827-1889)
Manuela León
Ecuadorian indigenous leader
Magloire Ambroise
Magloire Ambroise is a hero of the Haitian Independence.
Teodor Boldur-Lățescu
19th century Romanian politician, essayist and newspaper publisher
Juan Sánchez Ramírez
Dominican Republic politician
José Antonio Aponte
leader of Aponte Conspiracy
Le Van Khoi
Vietnamese general
Tarenorerer
Tarenorerer, also known as Walyer, Montserrat, Tuculillo, or Walloa ( – 5 June 1831), was a rebel leader of the Aboriginal Tasmanians. Between 1828 and 1830, she led a guerrilla band of indigenous people of both sexes against the British colonists in Tasmania during the Black War.
Macacha Guemes
Argentine heroine