Category
page 1African-American abolitionists
Harriet Tubman
African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)
Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
Sojourner Truth
African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist (1797–1883)
Solomon Northup
free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders
Harriet Jacobs
American slave, writer, and abolitionist (1815-1897)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
American writer
George Washington Williams
American Civil War soldier, Christian minister, Ohio politician, lawyer, journalist, and writer
Edward Mitchell Bannister
Black Canadian-American visual artist (1828-1901)
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
American publisher, journalist, African American civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor
Mary Ann Shadd
American abolitionist (1823–1893)
William Wells Brown
American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian (1814–1884)
Richard Allen
American minister, educator, writer (1760-1831)
Elizabeth Freeman
American former slave and abolitionist
Martin R. Delany
United States Army officer and physician, abolitionist, journalist, and writer (1812–1885)
Henry Box Brown
American magician, illusionist, actor and former slave
Sarah Parker Remond
American abolitionist and suffragist (1824-1894)
Mary Ellen Pleasant
African-American entrepreneur (1814-1904)
Charlotte Forten Grimké
American writer and activist (1837-1914)

David Walker
outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-slavery activist
Prince Hall
Founder of Prince Hall Freemasonry
Jupiter Hammon
American writer and first known published African-American author
Alexander Crummell
American minister, academic and African nationalist (1819–1898)
Henry Highland Garnet
American clergyman and diplomat (1815–1882)
Josiah Henson
author, abolitionist, and minister; born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, Charles Co., Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830
John Mercer Langston
American politician (1829–1897)
Sarah Mapps Douglass
American activist and artist (1806-1882)
James McCune Smith
American physician and abolitionist (1813-1865)
William Still
American activist, abolitionist, historian, and businessman (1821–1902)
Ellen and William Craft
fugitive slaves and slavery abolitionists, from Macon, Georgia
Maria W. Stewart
American activist, teacher, journalist, lecturer, abolitionist
Henry Bibb
American writer and abolitionist (1815–1854)
Richard H. Cain
American politician (1825–1887)

Absalom Jones
minister

James Forten
African-American abolitionist, pioneer of civil rights
Harriet Forten Purvis
American abolitionist (1810–1875)

Charles L. Reason
American mathematician (1818-1893)
Samuel Cornish
American Presbyterian minister (1795–1858)
Christiana Carteaux Bannister
American business entrepreneur, hairdresser, and abolitionist (1819–1902)
Paul Cuffe
American businessman (1759-1817)
Mary Jane Richardson Jones
American abolitionist, suffragist, and activist (1819–1909)
Anna Murray-Douglass
American abolitionist
John Brown Russwurm
Jamaican-American politician
David Bustill Bowser
American artist (1820 – 1900)
William Cooper Nell
African-American journalist, historian (1816-1874)
Shields Green
man enslaved in United States
Lewis Hayden
American abolitionist, lecturer, businessman and politician (1811-1889)
John C. Bowers
African American businessman (1811-1873)
William G. Allen
African American abolitionist (1820–1888)
John Rock
American abolitionist
James W.C. Pennington
African-American activist (1809-1879)
Charles Lenox Remond
American abolitionist, lecturer and civil rights activist
Patrick H. Reason
American artist (1816–1898)
Josephine Brown
American teacher, anti-slavery lecturer, biographer
Paul Jennings
American Author, First White House Memoirist
Thomas Bowers
African American concert artist (1823–1885)
Osborne Perry Anderson
African/American abolitionist (1830–1872)
John Anthony Copeland, Jr.
American rebel (1834-1859)

Robert Purvis
abolitionist (1810–1898)