List of African-American abolitionists

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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

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

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)

See also

• Abolitionism in the United States
• Category:African-American abolitionists
• John Brown's raiders#Black participation
• List of notable opponents of slavery
• Slavery in the United States
• Texas Revolution
• Underground Railroad
• United States Colored Troops

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