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This is a listing of notable opponents of slavery.

William Wilberforce (1759-1833), leading English abolitionst, led Parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade. Campaigned for the end of slavery in British Empire, dying three days after hearing the passage of the Act through Parliament assured.

John Brown (1800-1859), abolitionist who advocated armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery. He organized the Pottawatomie Massacre (1856) and was later executed for leading an unsuccessful 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

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 Canada (est. 1851)
• Anti-Slavery Society of Illinois
• Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (British)
• Free Soil Party
• Free-Staters
• International Justice Mission
• 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
• Upper Canada Anti-Slavery Society (est. 1837)

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 (British)
• 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
• Josiah Wedgwood (British) produced "Am I Not A Man And A Brother?" anti-slavery medallion
• Theodore Dwight Weld (American)
• John Wesley (British)
• Walt Whitman (American)
• John Greenleaf Whittier (American)
• William Wilberforce (British) Leading Parliamentary abolitionist
• Henry Wilson (American Vice President)
• John Woolman (American Quaker)

See also

• List of African-American abolitionists
• Abolitionism
• History of slavery
• History of slavery in the United States
• Radical Republicans
• Slavery
• Timeline of the African-American Civil Rights Movement
• Underground Railroad

References

1. ^ Hart and Mary Leavitt House, Charlemont, Massachusetts, National Park Service Network to Freedom Sites, nps.gov
2. ^ Roger Hooker and Keziah Leavitt House, Charlemont, Massachusetts, National Park Service Network to Freedom Sites, nps.gov
3. ^ www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm