page_title: List of abolitionists
section_title: Historical
hierarchical_section_title: List of abolitionists / Individuals / Historical
caption_attribution_description: Harriet Jacobs's only known formal portrait.
context_page_description: This is a listing of notable opponents of slavery, often called abolitionists.
context_section_description: Abigail Adams (American presidential wife and activist)
  John Quincy Adams (American President), had a long history of opposing slavery
  Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German/British)
  Bronson Alcott (American)
  Louisa May Alcott (American)
  George William Alexander (British)
  Richard Allen (former slave, American Methodist)
  William Allen (British Quaker)
  William G. Allen (American)
  Susan B. Anthony (American)
  Rosa Miller Avery (American)
  Gamaliel Bailey (American)
  Martha Violet Ball (American)
  Austin Bearse (American)
  Henry Ward Beecher (American)
  Anthony Benezet (American Quaker)
  Ramón Emeterio Betances (Puerto Rican)
  Henry Bibb, publisher The Voice of the Fugitive newspaper (Canadian)
  John Bingham, Jayhawker and Senator (American)
  Thomas Binney (British)
  James Gillespie Birney (American)
  William Birney (American)
  Simon Bolivar (Venezuelan)
  William Henry Brisbane (American)
  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (British)
  George Brown (Canadian)
  John Brown (American)
  William Wells Brown (American)
  Thomas Burchell (British Jamaican)
  Ansar Burney (Pakistani activist)
  Aaron Burr (American politician)
  Benjamin Butler (American)
  Thomas Fowell Buxton (British)
  Louis X of France (Louis X Capet, 1315, Kingdom of France)
  Mary Ann Shadd Cary, publisher Provincial Freeman newspaper (Canadian)
  Ramón Castilla, politician (Peruvian president)
  Antônio de Castro Alves (Brazilian)
  Elizabeth Buffum Chace (American activist)
  Elizabeth Margaret Chandler American writer and journalist, columnist.
  Zachariah Chandler (American)
  William L. Chaplin (American)
  Maria Weston Chapman (American)
  Salmon P. Chase (American)
  Lydia Maria Child (American)
  Ward Chipman (Canadian)
  John Clarkson (British)
  Thomas Clarkson (British)
  Cassius Marcellus Clay (American)
  John Coburn (American)
  Levi Coffin (American)
  Josiah Conder (British)
  Samuel Cornish (Presbyterian of African heritage, American)
  Oringe Smith Crary (American)
  John Cropper, Liverpudlian trader and philanthropist
  Alexander Crummell, African-American missionary
  Ottobah Cugoano (African/British)
  Henry Winter Davis (American)
  Thomas Day (British)
  Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (French)
  Martin Delany (son of a slave, American)
  Richard Dillingham (American)
  Frederick Douglass (former slave, American politician)
  David Einhorn (American rabbi)
  Edward James Eliot (British)
  Ralph Waldo Emerson (American)
  Olaudah Equiano former slave taken from modern day Nigeria (British)
  Calvin Fairbank (American)
  Sarah Harris Fayerweather (American)
  Guillaume de Félice (French)
  John Gregg Fee (American)
  Charles Finney (American)
  Charles Follen (German)
  Charlotte Forten (American)
  James Forten (American)
  Abby Kelley Foster (American)
  Stephen Symonds Foster (American)
  Benjamin Franklin (American)
  Amos Noë Freeman (American)
  John C. Frémont (American)
  Matilda Joslyn Gage (American)
  Thomas Galt (American), Vice-President, Illinois Anti-Slavery Society
  Eliza Ann Gardner (American)
  Henry Highland Garnet (American)
  Thomas Garrett  (American)
  William Lloyd Garrison (American)
  Maria Grazia Giammarinaro
  Jack Gladstone (Demeraran slave)
  Olympe de Gouges (French)
  Ulysses Grant (American)
  Horace Greeley (American)
  Beriah Green (American)
  Henri Grégoire (French)
  Leonard Grimes (American)
  Angelina Grimké (American)
  Sarah Moore Grimké (American)
  Vicente Guerrero (Mexican)
  Alexander Hamilton (American)
  Hannibal Hamlin (American)
  Theophilus Harrington (American)
  Laura Smith Haviland (American)
  Lewis Hayden (former slave, American)
  Michael Heilprin (American rabbi)
  Hinton Rowan Helper (enemy of slaveowners, American)
  Elizabeth Heyrick (British)
  James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (American)
  Elias Hicks (American)
  Miguel Hidalgo (Mexican)
  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (American)
  José Hilario López (Colombian)
  Thomas S. Hinde (American)
  Isaac Hopper (American)
  Julia Ward Howe (American)
  Samuel Gridley Howe (American)
  Thaddeus Hyatt (American)
  José Miguel Infante (Chilean)
  Robert G. Ingersoll (American)
  Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil
  Francis Jackson (American)
  Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) (former slave, American)
  John Jay (Ameri
caption: Harriet Jacobs was a former slave turned abolitionist who wrote the influential Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861).
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