List of African American abolitionists

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• Peter H. Clark
• Samuel Cornish
• William Craft
• Martin Delany (1812–1885)^[1]
• Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), orator, ex-slave^[2]
• James Forten
• Henry Highland Garnet
• Frances Harper
• Lewis Hayden
• Terry Loguen
• John Parker
• James W.C. Pennington
• Gabriel Prosser
• Robert Purvis
• Charles Lenox Remond
• David Ruggles
• John Brown Russwurm
• Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
• James McCune Smith
• Austin Steward
• Maria W. Stewart
• William Still
• Sojourner Truth (1797?-1883), ex-slave
• Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), ex-slave, writer
• Nat Turner
• Denmark Vesey
• David Walker
• William Whipper
• Theodore S. Wright
• Lee T. Smith A confederate liberator who gave the most help to Harriet Tubman.

[edit] See also

• List of notable opponents of slavery
• Abolitionism
• History of slavery in the United States
• Underground Railroad

[edit] Notes

1. ^ [1] "African American abolitionist, physician, and editor in the pre-Civil War period"
2. ^ [2] "The foremost African American abolitionist in antebellum America, Frederick Douglass"