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Abolitionists from Boston

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American philosopher (1803–1882)
Louisa May Alcott
American novelist (1832–1888)
William Lloyd Garrison
American journalist and abolitionist (1805–1879)
Lucy Stone
American abolitionist and suffragist (1818-1893)
Amos Bronson Alcott
American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer (1799-1888)
Julia Ward Howe
American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
Lydia Maria Child
American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)
Lysander Spooner
American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century (1808–1887)
Charles Sumner
American abolitionist and statesman (1811–1874)
Wendell Phillips
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Richard Henry Dana
American author and lawyer (1815–1882)
Edward Everett Hale
American author, historian and Unitarian minister (1822-1909)
Robert Gould Shaw
Union United States Army officer (1837-1863)
Theodore Parker
American transcendentalist, abolitionist and reforming minister (1810-1860)
Mary Livermore
American journalist
Samuel Gridley Howe
American physician and abolitionist (1801–1876)
Susanna Rowson
English-born American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress, educator, geographer (1762-1824)
James Freeman Clarke
American theologian and writer (1810–1888)
William Wells Brown
American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian (1814–1884)
Phillips Brooks
American clergyman and author, hymnwriter (1835–1893)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
American soldier, Unitarian minister and author (1823–1911)
John Albion Andrew
Massachusetts governor during the Civil War (1818-1867)
Charles Follen
German-American educator
Maria Weston Chapman
American abolitionist (1806–1885)
David Walker
outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-slavery activist
Prince Hall
Founder of Prince Hall Freemasonry
Maria W. Stewart
American activist, teacher, journalist, lecturer, abolitionist
Martha Coffin Wright
American activist (1806–1875)
William Francis Channing
American activist, physician and inventor
Amasa Walker
U.S. Representative and economist (1799-1875)
Adolph Douai
American activist and newspaper editor (1819–1888)
William Cooper Nell
African-American journalist, historian (1816-1874)
Elizur Wright
American abolitionist and actuary (1804-1885)
Lewis Hayden
American abolitionist, lecturer, businessman and politician (1811-1889)
John Rock
American abolitionist
Samuel Joseph May
radical American reformer during the nineteenth century
Sarah J. Eddy
American artist and photographer (1851-1945)
George Luther Stearns
Union Army officer
Photius Fisk
Greek-American statesman, botanist, philanthropist, clergyman, abolitionist, and civil rights activist.
Charles Lenox Remond
American abolitionist, lecturer and civil rights activist