# List of African-American abolitionists

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See also Category:African-American abolitionists

## A

* William G. Allen (c. 1820 – 1 May 1888)
* Osborne Perry Anderson

## B

* Henry Walton Bibb
* Mary E. Bibb
* James Bradley
* Henry Box Brown
* William Wells Brown

## C

* John Anthony Copeland Jr.
* Ellen and William Craft
* Paul Cuffe (January 17, 1759 – September 7, 1817)

## D

* Thomas Dalton
* Martin Delany
* Moses Dickson
* Charles Remond Douglass
* Frederick Douglass (c. February 1817 – February 20, 1895)
* Sarah Mapps Douglass
* Thomas Downing
* David Walker (abolitionist)

## F

* James Forten
* Margaretta Forten

## G

* Eliza Ann Gardner
* Henry Highland Garnet
* Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
* Rev. Samuel Green
* Shields Green
* Charlotte Forten Grimké

## H

* Frances Harper
* Lewis Hayden
* Felix Holbrook

## J

* Harriet Jacobs
* John S. Jacobs
* Thomas James

## L

* Charles Henry Langston
* John Mercer Langston
* Lewis Sheridan Leary
* Jermain Wesley Loguen
* Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston

## M

* Mary Meachum
* Henry Moxley
* Anna Murray-Douglass

## N

* William Cooper Nell
* Dangerfield Newby

## P

* John Parker
* Susan Paul
* James W.C. Pennington
* Gabriel Prosser
* Harriet Forten Purvis
* Robert Purvis

## R

* Peter Randolph
* Charles Bennett Ray
* Charlotte B. Ray
* Charles L. Reason
* Hetty Reckless
* Charles Lenox Remond
* John Swett Rock
* David Ruggles
* John Brown Russwurm (October 1, 1799 – June 9, 1851)

## S

* Dred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858)
* Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
* James McCune Smith
* Lucy Stanton
* Austin Steward (1793 – February 15, 1869)
* Maria W. Stewart
* William Still

## T

* Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – November 26, 1883)
* Harriet Tubman (c. March 1822 – March 10, 1913)
* Nat Turner (October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831)

## V

* George Boyer Vashon
* Denmark Vesey (c.1767 – July 2, 1822)

## W

* David Walker (September 28, 1796 – August 6, 1830)
* William Whipper (February 22, 1804 – March 9, 1876)
* Theodore S. Wright (1797–1847)