This is a listing of notable opponents of slavery. [edit] Groups
[edit] Individuals - Abigail Adams (American Presidential Wife and activist)
- John Adams (American President)
- John Quincy Adams (American President)
- Prince Albert (German/British)
- Bronson Alcott (American)
- Louisa May Alcott (American)
- Richard Allen (former slave, American Methodist)
- William Allen (British Quaker)
- Susan B. Anthony (American)
- Gamaliel Bailey (American)
- Henry Ward Beecher (American)
- Anthony Benezet (American)
- Ramón Emeterio Betances (Puerto Rican)
- Henry Bibb, publisher Voice of the Fugitive newspaper (Canadian)
- John Bingham - Jayhawker and Senator (American)
- Thomas Binney (English)
- Simon Bolivar (Venezuelan)
- William Henry Brisbane (American)
- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (British)
- George Brown (Canadian)
- John Brown (American)
- Thomas Burchell (British Jamaican)
- Ansar Burney (Pakistani activist)
- Aaron Burr (American politician)
- Benjamin Butler (American)
- Thomas Fowell Buxton (British)
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary, publisher Provincial Freeman newspaper (Canadian)
- Antônio de Castro Alves (Brazilian)
- Elizabeth Buffum Chace (American activist)
- Maria Weston Chapman (American)
- Salmon P. Chase (American)
- Lydia Maria Child (American)
- Ward Chipman (Canadian)
- John Clarkson (British)
- Thomas Clarkson (British)
- Cassius Marcellus Clay (American)
- Levi Coffin (American)
- Sydney Collins (American)
- Samuel Cornish (Presbyterian of African heritage, American)
- James Cropper, Liverpudlian trader and philanthropist
- John Cropper, Liverpudlian trader and philanthropist, son of James
- Ottobah Cugoano
- Thomas Day (British)
- Martin Delany (son of a slave, American)
- Charles Dickens (British)
- Richard Dillingham (American)
- Frederick Douglass (former slave, American politician)
- Kyle Dubuc (American)
- Edward James Eliot (British)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (American)
- Olaudah Equiano former slave taken from modern day Nigeria (British)
- Calvin Fairbank (American)
- Guillaume de Félice (French)
- Charles Finney (American)
- Charles Follen (German)
- Charlotte Forten (American)
- James Forten (American)
- Benjamin Franklin (American)
- Amos Noë Freeman (American)
- John C. Frémont (American)
- Henry Highland Garnet (American)
- Thomas Garret (American)
- William Lloyd Garrison (American)
- Jack Gladstone (Demeraran slave)
- Olympe de Gouges (French)
- Ulysses Grant (American)
- Horace Greeley (American)
- A. R. Green, publisher The True Royalist and Weekly Intelligencer newspapers (Canadian)
- Henri Grégoire (French)
- Angelina Grimké (American)
- Sarah Moore Grimké (American)
- Vicente Guerrero (Mexican)
- Alexander Hamilton (American)
- Theophilus Harrington (American)
- Laura Smith Haviland (American)
- Lewis Hayden (former slave, American)
- Hinton Rowan Helper (enemy of slaveowners, American)
- Elizabeth Heyrick (British)
- James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (American)
- Elias Hicks (American)
- Miguel Hidalgo (Mexican)
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson (American
- José Hilario López (Colombian)
- Isaac Hopper (American)
- Julia Ward Howe (American)
- Samuel Gridley Howe (American)
- Robert G. Ingersoll (American)
- Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil
- John Jay (American)
- Samuel Johnson
- Absalom Jones
- Ioannis Kapodistrias (Greek)
- Abby Kelley
- Joseph Ketley
- William Knibb
- James H. Lane (Senator)
- Benjamin Lay
- Hart Leavitt (American), Underground Railroad operator, Massachusetts[1]
- Joshua Leavitt (American), editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Emancipator
- Roger Hooker Leavitt (American), Underground Railroad operator, Massachusetts[2]
- Abraham Lincoln (American President)
- David Livingstone (Scottish)
- Toussaint L'Ouverture (former slave, a commander of the Haitian Revolution)
- Jermain Loguen (former slave, American)
- Elijah Lovejoy (American)
- James Russell Lowell (American)
- Maria White Lowell (American)
- Henry G. Ludlow (American)
- Benjamin Lundy (American)
- Zachary Macaulay (British)
- Karl Marx[3] (German)
- Samuel Joseph May (American)
- Philip Mazzei (Italian)
- Sir Charles Middleton (British)
- José Gregorio Monagas (Venezuelan)
- Hannah More (British)
- José María Morelos (Mexican)
- Lucretia Mott (American)
- Lord William Murray (British)
- Joaquim Nabuco (Brazilian)
- John Newton, former slave merchant (British)
- Alison Northcutt (British)
- Richard Oastler (British)
- Daniel O'Connell (Irish)
- Frederick Law Olmsted (American)
- Saint Acacius of Amida (Persian)
- Samuel Oughton (American), advocate of black labour rights in Jamaica)
- Thomas Paine (British born)
- John Parker (abolitionist) (former slave, American)
- Theodore Parker (American)
- Francis Daniel Pastorius (German-American)
- José do Patrocínio (Brazilian)
- Pedro I of Brazil
- Pedro II of Brazil
- Wendell Phillips (American)
- James Shepherd Pike (American), journalist
- Mary Ellen Pleasant (American)
- Bishop Beilby Porteus (British)
- John Wesley Posey (American)
- Gabriel Prosser (insurrectionist, American Slave)
- Robert Purvis (American)
- James Ramsay (British)
- John Rankin (American)
- André Rebouças (Brazilian)
- Charles Lenox Remond (American)
- Maximilien Robespierre (French)
- Ernestine Rose (American)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Genevan-French)
- Benjamin Rush (a founder of America)
- John Brown Russwurm (Jamaican & American)
- Ignatius Sancho (first ex-slave to vote, British)
- Victor Schœlcher (French)
- Dred Scott
- Samuel Sewall
- William H. Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln (American)
- Granville Sharp (British)
- Samuel Sharpe
- James Sherman
- Gerrit Smith
- John Smith (British missionary to Demerara, Guyana)
- William Smith (British)
- Silas Soule
- Lysander Spooner
- Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War under Lincoln
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Henry Stanton
- James Stephen (British lawyer)
- James Stephen (son) (British adimnistrator)
- Thaddeus Stevens (American)
- Maria W. Stewart (American)
- William Still (American)
- Lucy Stone (American)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (American)
- Linton Stratford, publisher The Voice of the Bondsman (Canadian)
- Charles Sumner (American)
- Arthur Tappan (American)
- George Thompson (British)
- Henry David Thoreau (American)
- Henry Thornton (British)
- Joseph Tracy (American)
- Sojourner Truth (American)
- Harriet Tubman abolitionist (American)
- Nat Turner insurrectionist, former slave (American)
- Denmark Vesey insurrectionist, former slave (American)
- Benjamin Wade (American)
- David Walker (abolitionist) (son of a slave, American)
- Samuel Ringgold Ward (born into slavery, American)
- Delia Webster
- Theodore Dwight Weld (American)
- John Wesley (British)
- Walt Whitman (American)
- John Greenleaf Whittier (American)
- William Wilberforce politician (British)
- Henry Wilson (American Vice President)
- John Woolman (American Quaker)
[edit] See also [edit] References - ^ Hart and Mary Leavitt House, Charlemont, Massachusetts, National Park Service Network to Freedom Sites, nps.gov
- ^ Roger Hooker and Keziah Leavitt House, Charlemont, Massachusetts, National Park Service Network to Freedom Sites, nps.gov
- ^ www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm
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