Abolitionism

:This article is about the abolition of slavery. For the general concept, see abolition. For the concept of abolishing all suffering, see abolitionist society.

Notable abolitionists

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• Gamaliel Bailey
• Henry Ward Beecher
• William Henry Brisbane
• John Brown
• Thomas Fowell Buxton (British)
• Thomas Clarkson (British)
• Levi Coffin
• Thomas Day (British)
• Richard Dillingham
• Frederick Douglass
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Calvin Fairbank
• Benjamin Franklin
• Amos Noë Freeman
• Thomas Garret
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Henri Grégoire (French)
• Angelina Emily Grimke
• Laura Smith Haviland

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• Lewis Hayden
• Hinton Rowan Helper
• Elias Hicks
• Julia Ward Howe
• Samuel Gridley Howe
• Benjamin Lundy
• Elijah Lovejoy
• James Russell Lowell
• Maria White Lowell
• Henry G. Ludlow
• Philip Mazzei
• Hannah More (British)
• Lucretia Mott
• Lord William Murray (British)
• Wendell Phillips
• Bishop Beilby Porteus (British)
• John Rankin
• Ernestine Rose
• Benjamin Rush

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• Victor Schoelcher (French)
• Granville Sharp (British)
• Gerrit Smith
• Silas Soule
• Lysander Spooner
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Henry Stanton
• William Still
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Arthur Tappan
• Henry David Thoreau
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Delia Webster
• Theodore Dwight Weld
• John Wesley (British)
• William Wilberforce (British)
• John Woolman

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