Famous Antislavery Activists

• Brown, John

  The anti-slavery militant who raided Harpers Ferry in 1859

• Douglass, Frederick

  Former slave turned anti-slavery leader

• Garrison, William Lloyd

  Civil War-era abolitionist who published The Liberator

• Stone, Lucy

  The abolitionist and women's suffragist who started 'The Woman's Journal'

• Tubman, Harriet

  The most famous conductor on the 'Underground Railroad'

• Vesey, Denmark

  The alleged leader of South Carolina's 1822 slave rebellion plot

• Walker, David

  African American abolitionist who wrote 1829's 'Appeal'

See: Index by Occupation