This is a listing of notable opponents of slavery, often called abolitionists.

Groups

Historical

* African Methodist Episcopal Church (American) *

American Anti-Slavery Society The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS; 1833–1870) was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, had become a prominent abolitionist and was a key leader of this society ...

(American) *

American Missionary Association The American Missionary Association (AMA) was a Protestant-based abolitionist group founded on in Albany, New York. The main purpose of the organization was abolition of slavery, education of African Americans, promotion of racial equality, and ...

(American) * Anti-Slavery Society (British) *

Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves The Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves, also known as the Birmingham and West Bromwich Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves, was founded in Birmingham, England, on 8 April 1825. It was the first anti-slavery societ ...

, founded 1825 (British) * Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (American) * Boston Vigilance Committee (American) *

British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

, founded 1839, continues as Anti-Slavery International * Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (British) * Free Soil Party (American) * Free-Staters (Kansas) (American) * Jayhawkers (American) * International Justice Mission (American) * Liberty Party (United States, 1840) * Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (American) * Massachusetts General Colored Association (American) *

New York Manumission Society The New-York Manumission Society was an American organization founded in 1785 by U.S. Founding Father John Jay, among others, to promote the gradual abolition of slavery and manumission of slaves of African descent within the state of New York. ...

(American) *

New England Anti-Slavery Society The Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, headquartered in Boston, was organized as an auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1835. Its roots were in the New England Anti-Slavery Society, organized by William Lloyd Garrison, editor of ...

(American) *

New England Freedom Association The New England Freedom Association (c.1842 – c.1848) was an organization founded by African Americans in Boston for the purpose of assisting fugitive slaves. History The New England Freedom Association was founded in 1842Quarles (1969), p. 15 ...

(American) * Oneida Institute (American) * Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society (American) * Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) * Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1787–1807? (British, aka Abolition Society) * Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, 1823–1838 (British, aka Anti-Slavery Society) *

Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was founded April 14, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and held four meetings. Seventeen of the 24 men who attended initia ...

(American) * Society of the Friends of the Blacks (''Société des Amis des Noirs'') (French)

Contemporary

8th Day Center for Justice 8th Day Center for Justice was a Roman Catholic non-profit organization based in Chicago, Illinois. Named after the Christian concept of an eighth day, it was founded in 1974 by six congregations of religious men and women. The center was advoca ...

, a Roman Catholic non-profit organization based in Chicago, Illinois * A Better World, organization that is based in

Lacombe Lacombe may refer to: Places * Lacombe, Alberta, Canada * Lacombe County, Alberta, Canada * Lacombe, Louisiana, United States * Lacombe, Aude, France People * Albert Lacombe (1827–1916), oblate missionary to the Cree and Blackfoot * Bernar ...

, Alberta, Canada *

A21 Campaign The A21 Campaign (commonly referred to as "A21") is a global 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-governmental organization that works to fight human trafficking, including sexual exploitation and trafficking, forced slave labor, bonded labor, involuntary ...

, 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-governmental organization that works to fight

human trafficking Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extrac ...

ABC Nepal Agroforestry, Basic Health, and Cooperative Nepal (ABC Nepal) is a nonprofit, non governmental organisation working in Nepal that focuses on women's rights and works against human trafficking in Nepal. Created in 1987, ABC Nepal was among the fir ...

, non-profit non- governmental organisation working in Nepal on trafficking of girls and minors across Indian subcontinent and Arabian countries, founded by

Durga Ghimire Durga Ghimire (born 12 May 1948) is a social worker and president of ABC Nepal, a non-profit organization working in the field of women welfare and anti trafficking. Early life and education She was born on 12 May 1948 as a 5th child of fathe ...

. *

Agape International Missions Agape International Missions (AIM) is a nonnonprofit, non-denominational, non-governmental organization working to rescue, heal and empower survivors of sex trafficking in Cambodia. It has staff in California and Southeast Asia and carries out h ...

, nonprofit organization in Cambodia * Anti-Slavery International, works at local, national and international levels to eliminate all forms of slavery around the world * Arizona League to End Regional Trafficking, coalition representing partnerships with law enforcement, faith-based communities, non-profit organizations, social service agencies, attorneys and concerned citizens. *

Awareness Against Human Trafficking (HAART) Awareness Against Human Trafficking (HAART) is a non-governmental organization working on the problem of human trafficking in Kenya. It was founded in 2010. Overview HAART works on five levels: * Prevention of trafficking through awareness. H ...

, non-governmental organization fighting against human trafficking in Kenya. *

California Against Slavery California Against Slavery (CAS) is a 501(c)(3) organization that launched a California state wide directory of organizations and agencies that provide services to victims and survivors of human trafficking, sex trafficking, and labor traffick ...

, human rights organization directed at strengthening California state laws to protect victims of

sex trafficking Sex trafficking is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. It has been called a form of modern slavery because of the way victims are forced into sexual acts non-consensually, in a form of sexual slavery. Perpetrators of the ...

Chab Dai Chab Dai ("joining hands" in Khmer) was founded in Cambodia in 2005 by Helen Sworn. Chab Dai is a coalition of diverse stakeholders committed to working together to abolish all forms of sexual abuse, human trafficking and exploitation. Chab Dai a ...

, coalition founded by Helen Sworn that connects Christian organizations committed to ending sexual abuse and trafficking. * Children's Organization of Southeast Asia (COSA), International Organization which works towards the prevention of child

and sexual exploitation within the Northern regions of Thailand, especially among hill-tribe communities. * Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, international non-governmental organization opposing

prostitution Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in Sex work, sexual activity in exchange for payment. The definition of "sexual activity" varies, and is often defined as an activity requiring physical contact (e.g., sexual intercourse, n ...

, and other forms of commercial sex *

Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) is a Los Angeles-based List of organizations opposing human trafficking, anti-human trafficking organization. Through legal, social, and advocacy services, CAST helps rehabilitate survivors of hu ...

, Los Angeles-based anti-

organization * ECPAT, international non-governmental organisation and network headquartered in Thailand which is designed to end the commercial sexual exploitation of children * The Emancipation Network, international organization dedicated to fighting

and modern-day slavery * Face to Face Bulgaria, organization whose primary mission is to prevent cases of forced prostitution and

in Bulgaria * Free the Slaves, dedicated to ending Slavery Worldwide * Freeset, organization whose primary mission is to provide sustainable employment and economic empowerment to victims of sex trafficking in South Asia. * Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, network of more than 100 non-governmental organisations from all regions of the world, who share a deep concern for the women, children and men whose human rights have been violated by the criminal practice of trafficking in persons * Hope for Justice, identifies and rescues victims, advocates on their behalf, provides restorative care which rebuilds lives and trains frontline professionals to tackle slavery. * Ing Makababaying Aksyon (Filipino) * International Justice Mission, an anti-trafficking organization. * La Strada International Association, international NGO network addressing trafficking in human beings in Europe * Love 146, vision: abolition of child trafficking and slavery, nothing less. * Maiti Nepal, non-profit organization in Nepal dedicated to helping victims of

* NASHI, a Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada-based organisation that opposes human trafficking by

raising awareness Consciousness raising (also called awareness raising) is a form of activism popularized by United States feminists in the late 1960s. It often takes the form of a group of people attempting to focus the attention of a wider group on some cause or ...

through education *

Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons The Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons (OCTIP) is a government agency responsible for coordinating efforts to address human trafficking in British Columbia, Canada. The focus of OCTIP's mandate is human rights, specifically those of the vi ...

government agency A government or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an administrati ...

responsible for coordinating efforts to address

in British Columbia, Canada *

Polaris Project Polaris is a nonprofit non-governmental organization that works to combat and prevent sex and labor trafficking in North America. The organization's 10-year strategy is built around the understanding that human trafficking does not happen in ...

, nonprofit, non-governmental organization that works to combat and prevent modern day slavery and human trafficking *

Prerana Prerana is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that works in the red-light districts of Mumbai, India to protect children vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking. It was established in 1986. The organization runs three n ...

, non-governmental organization ( NGO) that works in the red-light districts of Mumbai, India to protect children vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking. The organization runs three night care centers for children at risk, as well as shelter homes and a residential training center for girls rescued from the trafficking trade. *

Ratanak International Ratanak International (previously The Ratanak Foundation) is a Christian charity founded by Brian McConaghy in 1989 that works exclusively in Cambodia helping the country rebuild after decades of revolution, civil war and genocide. Ratanak, which ...

, organisation that rescues children from

sexual slavery Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is an attachment of any ownership rights, right over one or more people with the intent of Coercion, coercing or otherwise forcing them to engage in Human sexual activity, sexual activities. This include ...

and then provides them with education, rehabilitation, and safety *

Reaching Out Romania Reaching Out Romania (also simply called Reaching Out, abbreviated ROR) is a non-governmental charitable organization in Romania that helps girls ages 13 to 22 exit the sex industry. ROR rescues these girls from the Moldovan and Romanian mafia, w ...

, non-governmental charitable organization in Romania that helps girls ages 13 to 22 exit the sex industry * Redlight Children Campaign, non-profit organization created by New York lawyer and president of Priority Films Guy Jacobson and Israeli actress Adi Ezroni in 2002 to combat worldwide

child sexual exploitation Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is a commercial transaction that involves the sexual exploitation of a child, or person under the age of consent. CSEC involves a range of abuses, including but not limited to: the prostitution of ...

and

* Run for Courage,

nonprofit A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...

organization that combats human trafficking *

Somaly Mam Foundation Somaly Mam ( km, ម៉ម សុម៉ាលី ; born 1970 or 1971) is a Cambodian anti-trafficking advocate who focuses primarily on sex trafficking.Pesta, Abigai"Somaly Mam's Story: 'I Didn't Lie. ''Marie Claire'', September 16, 2014. Access ...

(Cambodian) * Slavery Footprint, nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California that works to end human trafficking and modern-day slavery. *

Stop Child Trafficking Now Stop Child Trafficking Now (also called SCTNow) was a organization founded by Lynette Lewis, an author and public speaker. This nonprofit organization engaged in advocacy work in an attempt to bring an end to the trafficking of children. SCTNow ...

, organization founded by Lynette Lewis, an author and public speaker *

Stop the Traffik STOP THE TRAFFIK was founded in 2006 by Steve Chalke MBE as a campaign coalition which aims to bring an end to human trafficking worldwide. Initially STOP THE TRAFFIK was set up as a two-year campaign to coincide with the bicentenary of the Aboliti ...

, campaign coalition which aims to bring an end to

worldwide *

The RINJ Foundation The RINJ Foundation (RINJ) is a Canadian incorporated global not-for-profit health care-related non-governmental organization women's group listed with the United Nations as an NGO Boycotts RINJ encourages its members and the public at large to ...

, Canadian-based women's group which adduces that vigorously prosecuting buyers of slaves is the way ahead to end

Sexual slavery Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is an attachment of any ownership rights, right over one or more people with the intent of Coercion, coercing or otherwise forcing them to engage in Human sexual activity, sexual activities. This include ...

Truckers Against Trafficking Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) is a nonprofit organization that trains truck drivers to recognize and report instances of human trafficking. This national organization formed in Oklahoma, United States, in 2009 and teaches truck drivers about ...

, nonprofit organization that trains truck drivers to recognize and report instances of human trafficking * Visayan Forum Foundation (Filipino)

Individuals

Historical

* 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 Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel ''Little Women'' (1868) and its sequels ''Little Men'' (1871) and ''Jo's Boys'' (1886). Raised in ...

(American) *

George William Alexander George William Alexander (1802–1890) was an English financier and philanthropist. He was the founding treasurer of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1839. The American statesman Frederick Douglass said that he "has spent more t ...

(British) * Richard Allen (former slave, American Methodist) * William Allen (British Quaker) *

William G. Allen William Gustavus Allen (c. 1820 – 1 May 1888) was an African-American academic, intellectual, and lecturer. For a time he co-edited ''The National Watchman,'' an abolitionist newspaper. While studying law in Boston he lectured widely on abolitio ...

(American) * Susan B. Anthony (American) *

Rosa Miller Avery Rosa Miller Avery , Miller; ( pen name, Sue Smith and unknown male pseudonyms; May 21, 1830 – November 9, 1894) was an American abolitionist, political reformer, second-generation suffragist, and writer. Avery's childhood home was a noted " unde ...

(American) *

Gamaliel Bailey Gamaliel Bailey (December 3, 1807June 5, 1859) was an American physician who left that career to become an abolitionist journalist, editor, and publisher, working primarily in Cincinnati, and Washington, D.C. Anti-abolitionist mobs attacked his o ...

(American) *

Martha Violet Ball Martha Violet Ball (May 17, 1811 – December 22, 1894) was a 19th-century American educator, philanthropist, activist, writer, and editor. Ball and her sister, Lucy, undertook the work of opening a school for young African American girls in the W ...

(American) * Eusebius Barnard (American) *

Austin Bearse Austin Bearse (1808-1881) was a sea captain from Cape Cod who provided transportation for fugitive slaves in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Early life Bearse was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, on April 3, 1808. As a youth h ...

(American) * Henry Ward Beecher (American) * Anthony Benezet (American Quaker) * Anna Amalia Bergendahl (Dutch) * Ramón Emeterio Betances (Puerto Rican) *

Henry Bibb Henry Walton Bibb (May 10, 1815 in Shelby County, Kentucky – August 1,1854 in Windsor) was an American author and abolitionist who was born a slave. Bibb told his life story in his narrative ''The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American ...

, publisher ''

The Voice of the Fugitive ''Voice of the Fugitive'' was Canada's first Black newspaper that was directed towards freedom seekers and Black refugees from the United States. Founded and edited by Henry Bibb and his wife Mary Bibb, it was first published on January 1st, 185 ...

'' newspaper (Canadian) *

John Bingham John Armor Bingham (January 21, 1815 – March 19, 1900) was an American politician who served as a Republican representative from Ohio and as the United States ambassador to Japan. In his time as a congressman, Bingham served as both assist ...

, Jayhawker and Senator (American) *

Thomas Binney Thomas Binney (1798–1874) was an English Congregationalist divine of the 19th century, popularly known as the "Archbishop of Nonconformity". He was noted for sermons and writings in defence of the principles of Nonconformity, for devotional ...

(British) *

James Gillespie Birney James Gillespie Birney (February 4, 1792November 18, 1857) was an American abolitionist, politician, and attorney born in Danville, Kentucky. He changed from being a planter and slave owner to abolitionism, publishing the abolitionist weekly '' ...

(American) * William Birney (American) *

Simon Bolivar Simon may refer to: People * Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon * Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon * Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...

(Venezuelan) *

William Henry Brisbane William Henry Brisbane (October 12, 1806 Beaufort County, South Carolina – April 5, 1878 Arena, Wisconsin) was a Baptist minister of the southern United States who, having convinced himself of the immorality of slavery, freed and settled a group ...

(American) *

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, (; 19 September 1778 – 7 May 1868) was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor and played a prominent role in passing the 1832 Reform Act and 1833 Slavery Abolition Act. ...

(British) *

George Brown George Brown may refer to: Arts and entertainment * George Loring Brown (1814–1889), American landscape painter * George Douglas Brown (1869–1902), Scottish novelist * George Williams Brown (1894–1963), Canadian historian and editor * G ...

(Canadian) *

John Brown John Brown most often refers to: *John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859), American who led an anti-slavery raid in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859 John Brown or Johnny Brown may also refer to: Academia * John Brown (educator) (1763–1842), Ir ...

(American) * William Wells Brown (American) *

Thomas Burchell Thomas Burchell (1799–1846) was a leading Baptist missionary and slavery abolitionist in Montego Bay, Jamaica in the early nineteenth century. He was among an early group of missionaries who went out from London in response to a request from ...

(British Jamaican) *

Anson Burlingame Anson Burlingame (November 14, 1820 – February 23, 1870) was an American lawyer, Republican/American Party legislator, diplomat, and abolitionist. As diplomat, he served as the U.S. minister to China (1862–1867) and then as China's envoy to t ...

(American) *

Ansar Burney Ansar Burney ( ur, انصار برنی; born 14 August 1956) is a Pakistani human and civil rights activist and former caretaker Federal Minister for human rights in Pakistan cabinet from 2007 to 2008. He graduated with Masters in Law from K ...

(Pakistani activist) *

Aaron Burr Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805. Burr's legacy is defined by his famous personal conflict with Alexand ...

(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 Ramón Castilla y Marquesado (; 31 August 1797 – 30 May 1867) was a Peruvian ''caudillo'' who served as President of Peru three times as well as the Interim President of Peru (Revolution Self-proclaimed President) in 1863. His earliest pr ...

, politician (Peruvian president) * Antônio de Castro Alves (Brazilian) *

Elizabeth Buffum Chace Elizabeth Buffum Chace (December 9, 1806 – December 12, 1899) was an American activist in the anti-slavery, women's rights, and prison reform movements of the mid-to-late 19th century. She was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of ...

(American activist) *

Elizabeth Margaret Chandler Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (December 24, 1807November 2, 1834) was an American poet and writer from Pennsylvania and Michigan. She became the first female writer in the United States to make the abolition of slavery her principal theme. Earl ...

American writer and journalist, columnist *

Zachariah Chandler Zachariah Chandler (December 10, 1813 – November 1, 1879) was an American businessman, politician, one of the founders of the Republican Party, whose radical wing he dominated as a lifelong abolitionist. He was mayor of Detroit, a four-term sen ...

(American) *

William L. Chaplin William Lawrence Chaplin (October 27, 1796 – April 28, 1871) was a prominent abolitionist in the years before the American Civil War. Known by the title of "General," he was an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society and a general agent fo ...

(American) * Maria Weston Chapman (American) *

Salmon P. Chase Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist who served as the sixth chief justice of the United States. He also served as the 23rd governor of Ohio, represented Ohio in the United States Senate, a ...

(American) *

Lydia Maria Child Lydia Maria Child ( Francis; February 11, 1802October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and ...

(American) * Ward Chipman (Canadian) * John Clarkson (British) * Thomas Clarkson (British) * Cassius Marcellus Clay (American) * John Coburn (American) * Levi Coffin (American) *

Nathaniel Colver Nathaniel Colver (born in Orwell, Vermont, 10 May 1794; died in Chicago, 25 December 1870) was an American Baptist clergyman. Biography Colver's father, a Baptist minister, moved, while Nathaniel was a child, to Champlain, in northern New York, ...

(Baptist pastor and educator, American) * Josiah Conder (British) *

Marie-Thérèse Lucidor Corbin Marie-Thérèse Lucidor Corbin (1749–1834) was an 18th-century French Creole activist. She celebrated the abolition of slavery in the French colonies by delivering a speech and singing a hymn to coloured citizens, set to the tune of ''La Marseil ...

(French Creole) * Samuel Cornish (Presbyterian of African heritage, American) *

Oringe Smith Crary Oringe Smith Crary (March 13, 1803 – March 24, 1889) was an American poet and abolitionist. Biography Oringe Smith Crary was born in Swanton (town), Vermont, Swanton, Vermont, on March 13, 1803, the eighth child of Nathan Crary, a Revolutiona ...

(American) *

John Cropper John Cropper (1797–1874) was a British philanthropist and abolitionist. A businessman, he was known as "''the most generous man in Liverpool''". Business and philanthropy Cropper was renowned for being rich, but also being generous. It is s ...

, Liverpudlian trader and philanthropist *

Alexander Crummell Alexander Crummell (March 3, 1819 – September 10, 1898) was a pioneering African-American minister, academic and African nationalist. Ordained as an Episcopal priest in the United States, Crummell went to England in the late 1840s to raise money ...

, African-American missionary *

Ottobah Cugoano Ottobah Cugoano, also known as John Stuart (c. 1757 – after 1791), was an abolitionist, political activist, and natural rights philosopher from West Africa who was active in Britain in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Captured in th ...

(African/British) *

Henry Winter Davis Henry Winter Davis (August 16, 1817December 30, 1865) was a United States Representative from the 4th and 3rd congressional districts of Maryland, well known as one of the Radical Republicans during the Civil War. He was the driving force behin ...

(American) *

Thomas Day Thomas Day may refer to: Sports * Tom Day (rugby union) (1907–1980), Welsh rugby union player * Tom Day (American football) (1935–2000), American football player * Tom Day (footballer) (born 1997), English footballer Others * Thomas Day (wri ...

(British) *

Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette (, ), was a French aristocrat, freemasonry, freemason and military officer who fought in the Ameri ...

(French) * Martin Delany (son of a slave, American) *

Richard Dillingham Richard Dillingham (June 18, 1823 – June 30, 1850) was a Quaker school teacher from Peru Township in what is now Morrow County, Ohio, U.S., who was arrested in Tennessee on December 5, 1848, while aiding the attempted escape of three slave ...

(American) * Frederick Douglass (former slave, American politician) *

George Hussey Earle Sr. George Hussey Earle Sr. (December 8, 1823 – June 18, 1907) was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer. As an abolitionist, he represented many fugitive slaves. He was a founder of the Republican party. Biography Born a "free Quaker" in Philadel ...

(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 Calvin Fairbank (November 3, 1816 – October 12, 1898) was an American abolitionist and Methodist minister from New York state who was twice convicted in Kentucky of aiding the escape of slaves, and served a total of 19 years in the Kentucky S ...

(American) * Alexander Falconbridge (British) *

Sarah Harris Fayerweather Sarah Harris Fayerweather (April 16 1812 – November 16 1878) was an African-American activist, abolitionist, and school integrationist. Beginning in January 1833 at the age of twenty, she attended Prudence Crandall's Canterbury Female Boarding Sc ...

(American) * Guillaume de Félice (French) *

John Gregg Fee John Gregg Fee (September 9, 1816 – January 11, 1901) was an abolitionist, minister and educator, the founder of the town of Berea, Kentucky, The Church of Christ, Union in Berea (1853), Berea College (1855), the first in the U.S. South with ...

(American) *

Maria Tomásia Figueira Lima Maria Tomásia Figueira Lima (6 December 1826 - 1902) was a Brazilian aristocrat and abolitionist.Schumaher, Schuma; Vital Brasil, Érico (2000). ''Dicionário Mulheres do Brasil: de 1500 até a atualidade'' (in Portuguese). Editora Zahar. She was ...

(Brazilian) *

Charles Finney Charles Grandison Finney (August 29, 1792 – August 16, 1875) was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. He has been called the "Father of Old Revivalism." Finney rejected much of tradi ...

(American) * Charles Follen (German) * Charlotte Forten (American) * James Forten (American) *

Abby Kelley Foster Abby Kelley Foster (January 15, 1811 – January 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist and radical social reformer active from the 1830s to 1870s. She became a fundraiser, lecturer and committee organizer for the influential American Anti-Sl ...

(American) *

Stephen Symonds Foster Stephen Symonds Foster (November 17, 1809 – September 13, 1881) was a radical American abolitionist known for his dramatic and aggressive style of public speaking, and for his stance against those in the church who failed to fight slavery. His ma ...

(American) * Benjamin Franklin (American) *

Amos Noë Freeman Amos Noë Freeman (1809—1893) was an African-American abolitionist, Presbyterian minister, and educator. He was the first full-time minister of Abyssinian Congregational Church in Portland, Maine, where he led a station on the Underground ...

(American) *

John C. Frémont John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, military officer, and politician. He was a U.S. Senator from California and was the first Republican nominee for president of the United States in 1856 ...

(American) * Matilda Joslyn Gage (American) *

Thomas Galt Thomas Galt (September 12, 1805 – September 12, 1857) was an American Presbyterian minister and Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist who organized two Presbyterian churches in Sangamon County, Illinois. He was Vice-President of the Ill ...

(American), Vice-President, Illinois Anti-Slavery Society *

Eliza Ann Gardner Eliza Ann Gardner (May 28, 1831 – January 4, 1922) was an African-American abolitionist, religious leader and women's movement leader from Boston, Massachusetts. She founded the missionary society of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church ( ...

(American) *

Henry Highland Garnet Henry Highland Garnet (December 23, 1815 – February 13, 1882) was an African-American abolitionist, minister, educator and orator. Having escaped as a child from slavery in Maryland with his family, he grew up in New York City. He was educat ...

(American) * Thomas Garrett (American) * William Lloyd Garrison (American) * Luís Gama (Brazilian) *

Maria Grazia Giammarinaro Maria Grazia Giammarinaro (born 23 June 1953) is an Italian judge and policy-maker. Education Giammarinaro graduated in 1975 with a doctorate in Italian Literature and Sociology from the University of Palermo, after which time she worked for ...

Jack Gladstone Jack Gladstone was an enslaved Guianese man who led the Demerara rebellion of 1823, one of the large slave rebellions in the British Empire. He was captured and tried after the rebellion, and deported. Biography Jack and his father, Quamina, a ...

(Demeraran slave) *

Olympe de Gouges Olympe de Gouges (; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 17483 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries. She began her career as a playwright ...

(French) *

Ulysses Grant Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant ; April 27, 1822July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As Commanding General, he led the Union Ar ...

(American) *

Horace Greeley Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and newspaper editor, editor of the ''New-York Tribune''. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressm ...

(American) *

Beriah Green Beriah Green Jr. (March 24, 1795May 4, 1874) was an American reformer, abolitionist, temperance advocate, college professor, minister, and head of the Oneida Institute. He was "consumed totally by his abolitionist views". He has been described as ...

(American) * Henri Grégoire (French) * Leonard Grimes (American) * Angelina Grimké (American) *

Sarah Moore Grimké Sarah Moore Grimké (November 26, 1792 – December 23, 1873) was an American abolitionist, widely held to be the mother of the women's suffrage movement. Born and reared in South Carolina to a prominent, wealthy planter family, she moved ...

(American) * Vicente Guerrero (Mexican) *

Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first United States secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795. Born out of wedlock in Charlest ...

(American) * Hannibal Hamlin (American) *

Theophilus Harrington Theophilus Harrington (also spelled Herrington or Herrinton) (March 27, 1762 – November 17, 1813) served as a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives. Early life Harrington was born in Coventry, R ...

(American) *

Laura Smith Haviland Laura Smith Haviland (December 20, 1808 – April 20, 1898) was an American abolitionist, suffragette, and social reformer. She was a Quaker and an important figure in the history of the Underground Railroad. Early years and family Laura Smit ...

(American) * Lewis Hayden (former slave, American) *

Michael Heilprin Michael Heilprin ( hu, Heilprin Mihály, 1823 – 1888) was a Polish-American Jewish biblical scholar, critic, and writer, born at Piotrków, Russian Poland, to Jewish parents. His family was distinguished by its knowledge of Hebrew lore as far b ...

(American rabbi) *

Hinton Rowan Helper Hinton Rowan Helper (December 27, 1829 – March 9, 1909) was an American Southern critic of slavery during the 1850s. In 1857, he published a book that he dedicated to the "nonslaveholding whites" of the South. '' The Impending Crisis of the S ...

(opposed slavery on economic grounds, American) *

Elizabeth Heyrick Elizabeth Heyrick (née Coltman; 4 December 1769 – 18 October 1831) was an English philanthropist and campaigner against the slave trade. She supported immediate, rather than gradual, abolition. Early life Born in Leicester, Elizabeth was t ...

(British) * James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (American) * Elias Hicks (American) * Miguel Hidalgo (Mexican) *

Thomas Wentworth Higginson Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823May 9, 1911) was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, politician, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with ...

(American) *

José Hilario López José Hilario López Valdés (18 February 1798, Popayán, Cauca – 27 November 1869, Campoalegre, Huila) was a Colombian politician and military officer. He was the President of Colombia between 1849 and 1853.Arismendi Posada, Ignacio; ...

(Colombian) *

Thomas S. Hinde Thomas Spottswood Hinde (April 19, 1785 – February 9, 1846) was an American newspaper editor, opponent of slavery, author, historian, real estate investor, Methodist minister and a founder of the city of Mount Carmel, Illinois. Members of the ...

(American) * Isaac Hopper (American) * Julia Ward Howe (American) * Samuel Gridley Howe (American) *

Thaddeus Hyatt Thaddeus Hyatt (July 21, 1816 – July 25, 1901) was an American abolitionist and inventor. In his opposition to slavery, Hyatt organized the efforts of abolitionists in Kansas to have the territory admitted to the Union as a free-state and camp ...

(American) *

José Miguel Infante José Miguel Infante y Rojas (March 1778 - April 9, 1844) was a Chilean statesman and political figure. He served several times as deputy and minister, and was the force behind the Federalist movement in that country. Early life He was born in S ...

(Chilean) *

Robert G. Ingersoll Robert Green Ingersoll (; August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899), nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism. Personal life Robert Inge ...

(American) * Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil * Francis Jackson (American) * Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) (former slave, American) Gilbert Studios photograph of Harriet Jacobs

Gilbert Studios photograph of Harriet Jacobs

* John Jay (American) *

Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. The ''Oxford ...

(British) * Absalom Jones (American) *

Hezekiah Joslyn Hezekiah Joslyn (1797-October 30, 1865) was an American physician and abolitionist. Joslyn homesteaded at what is today (2020) 8560 Brewerton Rd. in Cicero, New York. The homestead is now considered a potential archaeological site. He was an Ono ...

(American) *

Abby Kelley Abby Kelley Foster (January 15, 1811 – January 14, 1887) was an American Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist and radical social Reform movement#United States reform movements of the 1840s – 1930s, reformer active from the 1830s ...

(American) *

Joseph Ketley The Rev. Joseph Ketley (1802-1875) was a mid-nineteenth century Congregational missionary and abolitionist in Guyana, the former British colony of British Guiana which was known as Demerara and Essequibo at the time when his mission was establis ...

(British) * Fanny Kemble (British), author of '' Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839'' *

William Knibb William Knibb, OM (7 September, 1803 Kettering – 15 November 1845) was an English Baptist minister and missionary to Jamaica. He is chiefly known today for his work to free enslaved Africans. On the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slav ...

(British) *

Gustav Koerner Gustav Philipp Koerner, also spelled Gustave or Gustavus Koerner (20 November 1809 – 9 April 1896), was a German-American revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, politician, judge and statesman in Illinois and Germany, and a Colonel of the U.S. Arm ...

(German American) *

James H. Lane (Senator) James Henry Lane (June 22, 1814 – July 11, 1866) was a partisan militia leader during the Bleeding Kansas period that immediately preceded the American Civil War. During the war itself, Lane served as a United States Senator and as a general ...

(American) * John Laurens (American) * Benjamin Lay (American) *

Hart Leavitt Hart Leavitt (December 19, 1809 – 1881) was a Massachusetts merchant, landowner, legislator and prominent abolitionist. Leavitt was the brother of Roger Hooker Leavitt, with whom he operated an Underground Railroad station in Charlemont, Massa ...

(American), Underground Railroad operator, Massachusetts *

Joshua Leavitt Rev. Joshua Leavitt (September 8, 1794, Heath, Massachusetts – January 16, 1873, Brooklyn, New York) was an American Congregationalist minister and former lawyer who became a prominent writer, editor and publisher of abolitionist literature. ...

(American), editor of the abolitionist newspaper ''The Emancipator'' *

Roger Hooker Leavitt Col. Roger Hooker Leavitt (July 21, 1805 – July 17, 1885) was a prominent landowner, early industrialist and Massachusetts politician who with other family members was an ardent abolitionist, using his home in Charlemont, Massachusetts as a ...

(American), Underground Railroad operator, MassachusettsRoger Hooker and Keziah Leavitt House, Charlemont, Massachusetts, National Park Service Network to Freedom Sites, nps.gov
* Abraham Lincoln (American President) * David Livingstone (Scottish) * Rose Livingston (American) Rose Livingstone in 1913

* Toussaint L'Ouverture (former slave, a commander of the Haitian Revolution) * Jermain Loguen (former slave, American) * Elijah Lovejoy (American) * James Russell Lowell (American) * Maria White Lowell (American) *

Henry G. Ludlow Henry G. Ludlow (1797–1867) was an American minister and abolitionist, and one of those who worked with the New York Amistad Committee. He was a divinity student at Yale and then minister of the First Congregational Church in Oswego. From 182 ...

(American) * Benjamin Lundy (American) * Zachary Macaulay (British) *

Samuel Joseph May Samuel Joseph May (September 12, 1797 – July 1, 1871) was an American reformer during the nineteenth century who championed education, women's rights, and abolition of slavery. May argued on behalf of all working people that the rights of h ...

(American) * Philip Mazzei (Italian) * Isaac Mendenhall (American) * Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham (British) * José Gregorio Monagas (Venezuelan) * Hannah More (British) * José María Morelos (Mexican) * Robert Morris (American) * Lucretia Mott (American) * William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (British) *

Joaquim Nabuco Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo (August 19, 1849 – January 17, 1910) was a Brazilian writer, statesman, and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement of his country. Early life and education Born in Brazil, Joaquim was the son ...

(Brazilian) * William Cooper Nell (American) * John Newton, former slave merchant (British) *

Richard Oastler Richard Oastler (20 December 1789 – 22 August 1861) was a "Tory radical", an active opponent of Catholic Emancipation and Parliamentary Reform and a lifelong admirer of the Duke of Wellington; but also an abolitionist and prominent in the ...

(British) * Daniel O'Connell (Irish) * James Edward Oglethorpe (English, founder of the Province of Georgia) * Frederick Law Olmsted (American) * Saint Acacius of Amida (Persian) * Samuel Oughton (American), advocate of black labour rights in Jamaica) * Thomas Paine (British born) * John Parker (former slave, American) * Theodore Parker (American) (1810–1860), Unitarian minister and abolitionist whose words inspired speeches by Abraham Lincoln and later by Martin Luther King Jr. ("The arc of the moral universe is long...") * Francis Daniel Pastorius (German-American) *

José do Patrocínio José Carlos do Patrocínio (October 9, 1854 – January 29, 1905) was a Brazilian writer, journalist, activist, orator and pharmacist. He was among the most well-known proponents of the abolition of slavery in Brazil, and known as "O Tigre da Ab ...

(Brazilian) *

Pedro I of Brazil Don (honorific), Dom Pedro I (English: Peter I; 12 October 1798 – 24 September 1834), nicknamed "the Liberator", was the founder and List of monarchs of Brazil, first ruler of the Empire of Brazil. As King Dom Pedro IV, he List of ...

Pedro II of Brazil Don (honorific), Dom PedroII (2 December 1825 – 5 December 1891), nicknamed "the Magnanimity, Magnanimous" ( pt, O Magnânimo), was the List of monarchs of Brazil, second and last monarch of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. ...

* Wendell Phillips (American) * James Shepherd Pike (American), journalist * Mary Ellen Pleasant (American) * Bishop Beilby Porteus (British) * John Wesley Posey (American) *

Gabriel Prosser Gabriel ( – October 10, 1800), referred to by some as Gabriel Prosser, the surname of his slaveholder, was a man of African descent born in Virginia, and a blacksmith enslaved by the Prosser family who planned a large slave rebellion in the Ri ...

(insurrectionist, American slave) *

Harriet Forten Purvis Harriet Forten Purvis (1810June 11, 1875) was an African-American abolitionist and first generation suffragist. With her mother and sisters, she formed the first biracial women's abolitionist group, the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. Sh ...

(American) * Robert Purvis (American) *

Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis (1814–1884) was an American poet and abolitionist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She co-founded The ''Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society'' and contributed many poems to the anti-slavery newspaper ''The Liber ...

(American) *

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy (17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), revered as Periyar or Thanthai Periyar, was an Indian social activist and politician who started the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam. He is known as the 'Fa ...

(Founder of Self Respect Movement in Southern India) * James Ramsay (British) * John Rankin (American) *

Hermann Raster Hermann Raster (May 6, 1827 – July 24, 1891) was an American editor, abolitionist, writer, and anti-temperance political boss who served as chief editor and part-owner of the ''Illinois Staats-Zeitung'', a widely circulated newspaper in the G ...

(American) *

William Rathbone IV William Rathbone IV (10 June 1757 – 11 February 1809) was an English ship-owner and merchant involved in the organisation of American trade with Liverpool, England. He was a political radical, supporting the abolition of the slave trade and unive ...

(British) * John D. Read (American) * André Rebouças (Brazilian) * Charles Lenox Remond (American) * Maximilien Robespierre (French) * Ernestine Rose (American) * Benjamin Rush (American) *

John Brown Russwurm John Brown Russwurm (October 1, 1799 – June 9, 1851) was an abolitionist, newspaper publisher, and colonizer of Liberia, where he moved from the United States. He was born in Jamaica to an English father and enslaved mother. As a child he t ...

(Jamaican/American) *

Richard S. Rust Richard Sutton Rust (September 12, 1815 – December 22, 1906) was an American Methodist preacher, abolitionist, educator, writer, lecturer, secretary of the Freedmen's Bureau, and founder of the Freedmen's Aid Society. He also helped found mul ...

(American) *

Ignatius Sancho Charles Ignatius Sancho ( – 14 December 1780) was a British abolitionist, writer and composer. Born on a slave ship in the Atlantic, Sancho was sold into slavery in the Spanish colony of New Granada. After his parents died, Sancho's owner t ...

(first ex-slave to vote, British) * Victor Schœlcher (French) * Dred Scott (American slave) * Samuel Sewall (American) *

Samuel Edmund Sewall Samuel Edmund Sewall (1799–1888) was an American lawyer, abolitionist, and suffragist. He co-founded the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, lent his legal expertise to the Underground Railroad, and served a term in the Massachusetts Senate as ...

(American) * William H. Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln (American) * Granville Sharp (British) *

Samuel Sharpe Samuel Sharpe, or Sharp (1801 – 23 May 1832), also known as Sam Sharpe, was an enslaved Jamaican who was the leader of the widespread 1831–32 Baptist War slave rebellion (also known as the Christmas Rebellion) in Jamaica. He was proclaim ...

(Jamaican) * James Sherman (British) *

José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (; 13 June 17636 April 1838) was a Brazilian statesman, naturalist, mineralist, professor and poet, born in Santos, São Paulo, then part of the Portuguese Empire. He was one of the most important mentors ...

(Brazilian) * Kathleen Simon (British) Lady Simon

Gerrit Smith Gerrit Smith (March 6, 1797 – December 28, 1874), also spelled Gerritt Smith, was a leading American social reformer, abolitionist, businessman, public intellectual, and philanthropist. Married to Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, Smith was a candidat ...

(American) * John Smith (British missionary to Demerara, Guyana) *

Joshua Bowen Smith Joshua Bowen Smith (1813–1879) was an abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad and co-founder of the New England Freedom Association, and politician, serving one term as a Massachusetts state legislator.Several sources refer to Smith a ...

(American) * William Smith (British) *

Silas Soule Silas Stillman Soule (/ˈsoʊl/ ole (July 26, 1838 – April 23, 1865) was an American abolitionist, military officer and 'conductor' on the Underground Railroad. As a Kansas Jayhawker, he supported and was a proponent of John Brown's mov ...

(American) * Herbert Spencer (British) * Lysander Spooner (American lawyer) * Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War under Lincoln (American) *

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...

(American) *

Henry Stanton Henry Brewster Stanton (June 27, 1805 – January 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, social reformer, attorney, journalist and politician. His writing was published in the '' New York Tribune,'' the ''New York Sun,'' and William Lloy ...

(American) * James Stephen (British lawyer) * James Stephen (son) (British administrator) * Thaddeus Stevens (American) *

Maria W. Stewart Maria W. Stewart ( Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was a free-born African American who became a teacher, journalist, lecturer, abolitionist, and women's rights activist. The first known American woman to speak to a mixed audience of men ...

(American) * William Still (American) *

Lucy Stone Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a colle ...

(American) *

Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and became best known for her novel ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1852), which depicts the harsh ...

(American) * Charles Sumner (American) * La Roy Sunderland (American) *

Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski (french: link=no, Théodore de Korwin Szymanowski ; pl, Teodor Dyzma Makary Korwin Szymanowski ; 4 July 1846 – 20 September 1901) was a Polish nobleman and impoverished landowner, an economic and political the ...

(Polish) * Arthur Tappan (American) * Lewis Tappan (American) * George Thompson (British) *

Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading Transcendentalism, transcendentalist, he is best known for his book ''Walden'', a reflection upon simple living in natural su ...

(American) * Henry Thornton (British) * John Ton (Dutch-born American) *

Charles Turner Torrey Charles Turner Torrey (November 21, 1813 – May 9, 1846) was a leading American Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist. Although largely lost to historians until recently, Torrey pushed the abolitionist movement to more political and ...

(American) *

Joseph Tracy Joseph Tracy (1793–1874) was a Protestant Christian minister, newspaper editor, historian and leading figure in the American Colonization Society of the early to mid-19th century. He is noted as a typical figure of the New England Renaissanc ...

(American) *

John Harfield Tredgold John Harfield Tredgold (1798 – 22 May 1842) was an English chemist in the Cape Colony in Africa. He held a number of voluntary roles including Secretary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. The suburb of Cape Town called Harfie ...

(British) *

Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth (; born Isabella Baumfree; November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist of New York Dutch heritage and a women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to f ...

(American) * Harriet Tubman (American) * Nat Turner insurrectionist, former slave (American) * Denmark Vesey insurrectionist, former slave (American) *

Julio Vizcarrondo Julio Vizcarrondo Coronado (December 9, 1829 – 1889) was a Puerto Rican abolitionist, journalist, politician and religious leader. He played an instrumental role in the development and passage of the Moret Law which in 1873 abolished slave ...

(Spanish, born in Puerto Rico) * Benjamin Wade (American) *

David Walker (abolitionist) David Walker (September 28, 1796August 6, 1830) was an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist. Though his father was enslaved, his mother was free; therefore, he was free as well (''partus sequitur ventrem''). In 1829, while l ...

(son of a slave, American) * Samuel Ringgold Ward (born into slavery, American) * Josiah Wedgwood (British) produced "''Am I Not A Man And A Brother?''" anti-slavery medallion *

Theodore Dwight Weld Theodore Dwight Weld (November 23, 1803 – February 3, 1895) was one of the architects of the American abolitionist movement during its formative years from 1830 to 1844, playing a role as writer, editor, speaker, and organizer. He is best known ...

(American) *

John Wesley John Wesley (; 2 March 1791) was an English people, English cleric, Christian theology, theologian, and Evangelism, evangelist who was a leader of a Christian revival, revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The soci ...

(British) * Charles Augustus Wheaton (American) Underground Railroad Operator, New York * Walt Whitman (American) *

John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet ...

(American) * William Wilberforce (British) Leading Parliamentary abolitionist * Austin Willey (American newspaper editor) *

Henry Wilson Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was an American politician who was the 18th vice president of the United States from 1873 until his death in 1875 and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to ...

(American Vice President) *

Hiram Wilson Hiram Wilson (September 25, 1803 – April 16, 1864) was an anti-slavery abolitionist who worked directly with escaped and former slaves in southwestern Ontario. He attempted to improve their living conditions and help them to be integrated into ...

(Canada) * John Woolman (American Quaker) *

Elizur Wright Elizur Wright III (12 February 1804 – 22 November 1885) was an American mathematician and abolitionist. He is sometimes described in the United States as "the father of life insurance", or "the father of insurance regulation", as he campaigned ...

(American) * Frances Wright (American)

Contemporary

* David Batstone founder of the non-profit organization Not for Sale (American) * Don Brewster founder of

(American) *

Florrie R. Burke Florrie R. Burke, M.Ed., MA, LMFT, is a human rights advocate, specializing in combating human trafficking. Secretary of State John Kerry presented Ms. Burke with the inaugural ''Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking ...

(American) * Vednita Carter founder of Breaking Free (American) *

Katherine Chon Katherine Chon is the co-founder of Polaris Project in the United States. She started the organization immediately upon graduation with fellow Brown University student Derek Ellerman in 2002 after learning about the issue during her undergradua ...

co-founder of

(American) *

Derek Ellerman Derek Ellerman (born June 27, 1978) is an American social entrepreneur. He was a co-founder of Polaris Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that combats human trafficking and modern slavery. In 2004, he was selected as a Fel ...

co-founder of

(American) *

(Nepali) *

(Italian) * Glendene Grant mother of slave, founder of Mothers Against Trafficking in Humans (Canadian) * Nick Grono Freedom Fund and

Walk Free Foundation Minderoo Foundation's Walk Free initiative is an independent, privately funded international human rights organisation based in Perth, Western Australia. Walk Free works towards ending modern slavery in all its forms by taking a multifaceted and g ...

(Australian) *

Siddharth Kara Siddharth Kara is an American author, activist, and expert on modern-day slavery and human trafficking, child labor, and related human rights issues. He is a British Academy Global Professor, an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy S ...

author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2009) and Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (American) * Rachel Lloyd (British) * Rose Livingston former slave who worked to free slaves in New York City (American) *

Iana Matei Iana Matei is a Romanian activist and founder of Reaching Out Romania, an organization to seek out and rehabilitate victims of forced prostitution. Early life Iana Matei was born in Orăștie, Romania. Her mother was a pentathlete, and her fathe ...

founder of

(Romanian) *

Somaly Mam Somaly Mam ( km, ម៉ម សុម៉ាលី ; born 1970 or 1971) is a Cambodian anti-trafficking advocate who focuses primarily on sex trafficking.Pesta, Abigai"Somaly Mam's Story: 'I Didn't Lie. ''Marie Claire'', September 16, 2014. Acce ...

founder of

(Cambodian) *

Bukola Oriola Bukola Oriola (born 1976) is a Nigerian-American journalist. She lives in Anoka County, Minnesota, and has a son named Samuel Jacobs. She spent six years as a journalist covering education in Nigeria while still living in that country. In 2005, s ...

former slave, author of ''Imprisoned: The Travails of a Trafficked Victim'' (Nigerian) *

Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon Kathleen Rochard Simon, Viscountess Simon, DBE (formerly Manning, Harvey; 23 September 1869 – 27 March 1955) was an Anglo-Irish anti-slavery activist. She was inspired to research slavery after living in Tennessee with her first husband, and ...

(British) * Elizabeth Smart former slave, founder of Elizabeth Smart Foundation (American) * Linda Smith (American politician) founder of

Shared Hope International Shared Hope International (SHI) is a non-profit, non-governmental, Christian organization that exists to prevent sex trafficking and restore and bring justice to women and children who have been victimized through sex trafficking. SHI is part o ...

(American) * Helen Sworn (English) * Sheila White former slave (American)

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