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Abolitionist


1913 Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in NY

1894 Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68

1893 Lucy [Blackwell-]Stone, U.S. abolitionist/feminist, dies

1883 Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96

1879 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73

1879 Wolter R baron van Hoevell, Dutch vicar/abolitionist, dies at 66

1859 John Brown, U.S. abolitionist (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59

1832 Moncure Daniel Conway, U.S., abolitionist, Life of Thomas Paine

1831 Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston

1831 William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal

1830 David Walker, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens), dies at 44

1826 Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist

1819 James Russell Lowell, poet and critic /diplomat/abolitionist

1818 Lucy Blackwell-Stone, U.S. abolitionist, U.S. Woman's Suffrage Association

1817 Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor

1815 Henry Highland Garnet, Maryland, minister/abolitionist/diplomat

1805 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher, The Liberator

1805 Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer

1802 Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist

1802 Lydia Maria Child, U.S., author/abolitionist, Juvenile Miscellany

1800 John Brown, abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry

1793 Lucretia Coffin Mott, U.S., teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist

1792 Sarah Moore Grimke, American abolitionist/women's rights advocate

1789 Benjamin Lundy, philanthropist/abolitionist

1787 Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/feminist

1785 David Walker, Wilmington, North Carolina, abolitionist, Appeal to Colored Citizens

1775 1st abolitionist society in U.S. organizes in Philadelphia


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