Category

Underground Railroad people

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Henry David Thoreau

American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

American abolitionist and author (1811–1896)

Louisa May Alcott

American novelist (1832–1888)

African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)

Frederick Douglass

African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)

Susan B. Anthony

American women's rights activist (1820-1906)

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.

William H. Seward

American lawyer and politician (1801-1872)

Amos Bronson Alcott

American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer (1799-1888)

Matilda Joslyn Gage

American abolitionist, writer

Solomon Northup

free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders

Allan Pinkerton

Scottish-American civil war detective and spy

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

American writer

Thaddeus Stevens

American statesman (1792–1868)

Zachariah Chandler

American politician (1813–1879)

Abby Kelley Foster

American activist (1811–1887)

American minister, educator, writer (1760-1831)

American abolitionist and politician (1797–1874)

Mary Ellen Pleasant

African-American entrepreneur (1814-1904)

American politician (1811-1864)

American educator and abolitionist (1798-1877)

Graceanna Lewis

American ornithologist, naturalist, illustrator and abolitionist (1821–1912)

Henry Clay Work

American composer and songwriter (1832-1884)

American botanist and geologist (1797-1861)

James McCune Smith

American physician and abolitionist (1813-1865)

American activist, abolitionist, historian, and businessman (1821–1902)

American politician (1829-1917)

Lawrence Brainerd

American politician (1794-1870)

John Mercer Langston

American politician (1829–1897)

Martha Coffin Wright

American activist (1806–1875)

Joshua Reed Giddings

American politician (1795–1864)

Bushrod Johnson

Confederate Army general (1817–1880)

United States political manager and journalist (1797–1882)

Elizabeth Van Lew

American civil war spy (1818-1900)

American Union Army officer

American activist and social worker (1800–1877)

Mary Jane Richardson Jones

American abolitionist, suffragist, and activist (1819–1909)

Harriet Forten Purvis

American abolitionist (1810–1875)

American abolitionist

Julia Archibald Holmes

American activist (1838-1887)

Clarina I. H. Nichols

American journalist

William Cooper Nell

African-American journalist, historian (1816-1874)

Alexander Milton Ross

Canadian abolitionist (1832-1897)

David Bustill Bowser

American artist (1820 – 1900)

Anna Murray-Douglass

American abolitionist

American politician (1816–1903)

Benjamin Butterworth

American politician and lawyer (1837–1898)

Laura Smith Haviland

American abolitionist and suffragette (1808-1898)

American abolitionist, lecturer, businessman and politician (1811-1889)

Samuel Joseph May

radical American reformer during the nineteenth century

Josiah Bushnell Grinnell

American politician (1821-1891)

George Luther Stearns

Union Army officer

Elizabeth Buffum Chace

American activist

Daniel Read Anthony

American mayor and newspaper publisher

Henry Lee Morey

Union United States Army officer (1841–1902)

American artist (1797-1868)

American minister and journalist (1794-1873)

abolitionist (1810–1898)

American physician and horticulturalist (1797-1840)

American politician (1824–1902)