List of opponents of slavery
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This is a listing of notable opponents of slavery.
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[edit] Groups
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- American Anti-Slavery Society
- Ansar Burney Trust - Middle East and Pakistan
- Anti-Slavery International
- Anti-Slavery Society (British)
- Anti-Slavery Society of Illinois
- Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (British)
- Free Soil Party
- Liberty Party (United States)
- New York Manumission Society
- New England Anti-Slavery Society
- Ohio Anti-Slavery Society
- Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society
- Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
- Republican Party (United States)
- Royal Navy
- Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage American
- Society of the Friends of the Blacks (Société des Amis des Noirs) (French)
- Unitarian Universalists
[edit] Individuals
- Prince Albert
- Ansar Burney
- John Adams
- John Quincy Adams
- Bronson Alcott
- Louisa May Alcott
- Richard Allen
- William Allen (Quaker)
- Susan B. Anthony
- Gamaliel Bailey
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Anthony Benezet
- Ramón Emeterio Betances (Puerto Rican)
- John Bingham - Jayhawker and Senator
- Thomas Binney
- Simon Bolivar
- William Henry Brisbane
- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (British)
- John Brown
- Thomas Burchell
- Aaron Burr
- Benjamin Butler
- Thomas Fowell Buxton (British)
- Antônio de Castro Alves (Brazilian)
- Elizabeth Buffum Chace
- Maria Weston Chapman
- Salmon P. Chase
- Lydia Maria Child
- John Clarkson (British)
- Thomas Clarkson (British)
- Cassius Marcellus Clay
- Levi Coffin
- Samuel Cornish
- Thomas Day (British)
- Charles Darwin (British)
- Martin Delany
- Charles Dickens (British)
- Richard Dillingham
- Frederick Douglass
- Edward James Eliot (British)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Olaudah Equiano (former slave)
- Calvin Fairbank
- Guillaume de Félice (French)
- Charles Finney
- Charles Follen
- Charlotte Forten
- James Forten
- Benjamin Franklin
- Amos Noë Freeman
- John C. Frémont
- Henry Highland Garnet
- Thomas Garret
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Horace Greeley
- Henri Grégoire (French)
- Angelina Grimké
- Olympe de Gouges (French)
- Sarah Moore Grimké
- Vicente Guerrero (Mexican)
- Alexander Hamilton
- Theophilus Harrington
- Laura Smith Haviland
- Lewis Hayden
- Hinton Rowan Helper (enemy of slaveowners)
- James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok
- Elias Hicks
- Miguel Hidalgo (Mexican)
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Isaac Hopper
- Julia Ward Howe
- Samuel Gridley Howe
- Robert G. Ingersoll
- Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil
- John Jay
- Samuel Johnson
- Absalom Jones
- Abby Kelley
- Joseph Ketley
- William Knibb
- James H. Lane (Senator)
- Benjamin Lay
- Rev. Joshua Leavitt
- Abraham Lincoln
- David Livingstone (Scottish)
- Toussaint L'Ouverture
- Jermain Loguen
- Elijah Lovejoy
- James Russell Lowell
- Maria White Lowell
- Henry G. Ludlow
- Benjamin Lundy
- Zachary Macaulay (British)
- Karl Marx[1] (German)
- Samuel Joseph May
- Philip Mazzei (Italian)
- Sir Charles Middleton (British)
- José Gregorio Monagas (Venezuelan)
- Hannah More (British)
- José María Morelos (Mexican)
- Lucretia Mott
- Lord William Murray (British)
- Joaquim Nabuco (Brazilian)
- John Newton, former slave merchant (British)
- Richard Oastler (British)
- Daniel O'Connell (Irish)
- Samuel Oughton
- Thomas Paine (British born)
- Theodore Parker
- John Parker (abolitionist)
- Francis Daniel Pastorius (German-American)
- José do Patrocínio (Brazilian)
- Wendell Phillips
- James Shepherd Pike - journalist
- Mary Ellen Pleasant
- Bishop Beilby Porteus (British)
- John Wesley Posey
- Gabriel Prosser
- Robert Purvis
- James Ramsay (British)
- John Rankin
- André Rebouças (Brazilian)
- Charles Lenox Remond
- Maximilien Robespierre (French)
- Ernestine Rose
- Benjamin Rush
- John Brown Russwurm
- Victor Schœlcher (French)
- Dred Scott
- Samuel Sewall
- William H. Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln
- Granville Sharp (British)
- Samuel Sharpe
- James Sherman
- Gerrit Smith
- William Smith (British)
- Silas Soule
- Lysander Spooner
- Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War under Lincoln
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Henry Stanton
- James Stephen (British)
- Thaddeus Stevens
- Maria W. Stewart
- William Still
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Senator Charles Sumner
- Arthur Tappan
- George Thompson (British)
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry Thornton (British)
- Joseph Tracy
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Nat Turner insurrectionist
- Benjamin Wade
- David Walker
- Samuel Ringgold Ward
- Delia Webster
- Theodore Dwight Weld
- John Wesley (British)
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- William Wilberforce (British)
- Henry Wilson
- John Woolman
[edit] See also
- List of African-American abolitionists
- Abolitionism
- History of slavery
- History of slavery in the United States
- Radical Republican (USA)
- Slavery
- Underground Railroad
[edit] References
- ^ www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm
