1913 Death Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in NY 1894 Death Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68 1893 Death Lucy [Blackwell-]Stone, U.S. abolitionist/feminist, dies 1883 Death Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96 1879 Death William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73 1879 Death Wolter R baron van Hoevell, Dutch vicar/abolitionist, dies at 66 1859 Death John Brown, U.S. abolitionist (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59 1832 Birthday Moncure Daniel Conway, U.S., abolitionist, Life of Thomas Paine 1831 Event Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston 1831 Event William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal 1830 Death David Walker, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens), dies at 44 1826 Birthday Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist 1819 Birthday James Russell Lowell, poet and critic /diplomat/abolitionist 1818 Birthday Lucy Blackwell-Stone, U.S. abolitionist, U.S. Woman's Suffrage Association 1817 Birthday Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor 1815 Birthday Henry Highland Garnet, Maryland, minister/abolitionist/diplomat 1805 Birthday William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher, The Liberator 1805 Birthday Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer 1802 Birthday Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist 1802 Birthday Lydia Maria Child, U.S., author/abolitionist, Juvenile Miscellany 1800 Birthday John Brown, abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry 1793 Birthday Lucretia Coffin Mott, U.S., teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist 1792 Birthday Sarah Moore Grimke, American abolitionist/women's rights advocate 1789 Birthday Benjamin Lundy, philanthropist/abolitionist 1787 Birthday Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/feminist 1785 Birthday David Walker, Wilmington, North Carolina, abolitionist, Appeal to Colored Citizens 1775 Event 1st abolitionist society in U.S. organizes in Philadelphia
