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Abolitionists from Pennsylvania

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Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
Sarah Grimké
American abolitionist (1792–1873)
Angelina Grimké
American abolitionist and feminist
Simon Cameron
American businessman and politician (1799–1889)
Edward Dickinson Baker
American politician, lawyer and military leader (1811–1861)
Richard Allen
American minister, educator, writer (1760-1831)
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
American abolitionist and suffragist (1842-1932)
Benjamin Lay
American Quaker activist
Charlotte Forten Grimké
American writer and activist (1837-1914)
William Parker Foulke
American paleontologist (1816–1865)
Sarah Mapps Douglass
American activist and artist (1806-1882)
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler
American abolitionist and writer (1807-1834)
Absalom Jones
minister
Anthony Benezet
American quaker teacher and abolitionist
James Forten
African-American abolitionist, pioneer of civil rights
Mary Birdsall
American journalist, suffragist, temperance worker
Elliott Cresson
American philanthropist (1796–1854)
John C. Bowers
African American businessman (1811-1873)
Abigail Hopper Gibbons
American abolitionist, reformer, activist and Civil War nurse (1801-1893)
Grimké sisters
white American female advocates of abolition of slavery and women's rights
George Bryan
American judge (1731-1791)
John H. B. Latrobe
American lawyer and inventor
William Rawle
American writer
Abraham op den Graeff
original founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, as well as a civic leader, award-winning weaver, and signer of the first organized religious protest against slavery in colonial America
Osborne Perry Anderson
African/American abolitionist (1830–1872)
John Covode
American politician
William Montgomery
American general and politician 1736-1816