* 1818 – Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist ( d. 1895 )

After returning to the US, Douglass produced some abolitionist newspapers: The North Star, Frederick Douglass Weekly, Frederick Douglass ' Paper, Douglass ' Monthly and New National Era.

This impressive work was followed by a series of paintings of the lives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, as well as a series of pieces about the abolitionist John Brown.

* 1838 – Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.

They nominated the former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass for Vice President.

* February 14 – Frederick Douglass ( his day of birth was never established ; he adopted this date ), American abolitionist author and statesman ( d. 1895 )

There is evidence to suggest that Tubman and her group stopped at the home of abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass.

The abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass declared " Now I am my own master " when he took a paying job.

Formed in 1870 during Reconstruction after the US Civil War, Douglas County was originally named by the reconstruction legislature after Frederick Douglass, the Civil War-era abolitionist.

* Frederick Douglass ( 1818-1891, American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer

* Frederick Douglass ( 1818 – 1895 ), former slave and noted abolitionist leader, appointed U. S. Marshal for the District of Columbia in 1877

In 1861, Frederick W. Gunn, the abolitionist founder of the Gunnery prep school, opened America's first summer camp in Washington.

* Frederick Gunn, abolitionist, educator, and inventor of summer camp

Charles Douglass ’ father, the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass, visited and would have become a resident had he not died before the house that his son was building for him was completed.

* Frederick Douglass, noted author and abolitionist

In 1838, Frederick Douglass, the runaway slave who became a famous abolitionist, settled in New Bedford.

* Frederick Douglass, abolitionist leader.

* Frederick Douglass ( 1818 – 1895 ), American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer

He also completed a biography of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who had escaped from slavery before the war and become renowned as a speaker and abolitionist.

Frederick Douglass, a former slave and publisher of a Rochester, New York, abolitionist newspaper, attended the convention.

Clarkson was named after Thomas Clarkson, the slave trade abolitionist, whom his father knew, and this was the only forename he used, although there is reason to believe Frederick was a second one.

For a short time he became a noted abolitionist speaker and later a showman, but later lost the support of the abolitionist community, notably Frederick Douglass, who wished Brown had kept quiet about his escape so that more slaves could have escaped using similar means.

Douglass joined several organizations, including a black church, and regularly attended abolitionist meetings.

Douglass ' change of position on the Constitution was one of the most notable incidents of the division in the abolitionist movement after the publication of Spooner's book The Unconstitutionality of Slavery in 1846.

Douglass was acquainted with the radical abolitionist John Brown but disapproved of Brown's plan to start an armed slave rebellion in the South.

Pitts was the daughter of Gideon Pitts, Jr., an abolitionist colleague and friend of Douglass.

* Douglass founded and edited the abolitionist newspaper The North Star from 1847 to 1851.

He later told abolitionist Edmund Quincy of the `` marked attention and civility '' with which the New Orleans gentlemen and the upriver planters greeted him.

Though he was always quite hostile to slavery, nearly to be point of being an abolitionist ( although he doubted the abolitionists could successfully end slavery ), he grew even more hostile to it later in life.

In his 1870 memoir, Army Life in a Black Regiment, New England abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson ( later editor of Emily Dickinson ), described how he wrote down and preserved Negro spirituals or " shouts " while serving an a colonel in the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first authorized Union Army regiment recruited from freedmen during the Civl War ( memorialized in the 1989 film Glory ).

Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, a Southerner who would later serve as president of the Confederate States of America, was concerned that the pileus would be taken as an abolitionist symbol.

He discerned very quickly the inequality between races, writing in later years " I early came to the conclusion that something was wrong … and determined me … to be an abolitionist.

A few days later, the Sacking of Lawrence led abolitionist John Brown and six of his followers to execute five men along the Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas, in retaliation.

The abolitionist John Brown heard about Gerrit Smith's reforms, and left his anti-slavery activities in Kansas to buy of land, which later became known as the " Freed Slave Utopian Experiment ," Timbucto.

In later years Channing addressed the topic of slavery, although he was never an ardent abolitionist.

In the biography, The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina, historian Gerda Lerner writes that “ It never occurred to that she should abide by the superior judgment of her male relatives or that anyone might consider her inferior, simply for being a girl .” More so than her elder sister ( and later, fellow abolitionist ), Sarah, Angelina seemed to be naturally inquisitive and outspoken, a trait which often offended her rather traditional family and friends.

She exposed herself to more extreme abolitionist literature, such as the periodicals The Emancipator and William Lloyd Garrison ’ s The Liberator ( in which she would later be published ).

Grimké, though initially embarrassed by the letter ’ s publication, refused, and the letter was later reprinted in the New York Evangelist, other abolitionist papers and was also included in a pamphlet with Garrison ’ s noteworthy Appeal to the Citizens of Boston.

Two years later she left the field of education to marry Henry Grafton Chapman, a second generation abolitionist and wealthy Boston merchant.

He later returned to New York City, where he joined the American Anti-Slavery Society and frequently spoke at abolitionist conferences.

For example, he attended several sermons given by a Baptist abolitionist by the name of David Barrow in his youth, which he later recalled with fondness.

A reformer and abolitionist, his words and quotations which he popularized would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr.

It features him with black slaves as he was an abolitionist later in life.

* Person Colby Cheney ( 1828 – 1901 ), paper manufacturer, abolitionist, 43rd Governor of New Hampshire and later senator from the state

He supported public education, was an abolitionist and suggested that a new national capital be created in Brazil's underdeveloped interior ( effected over a century later as Brasília ).

His coverage influenced abolitionist Salmon P. Chase to lead a successful drive to remove McLean as a candidate of the Free Soil Party for the Presidency later that summer.

A lifelong abolitionist, Thoreau delivered an impassioned speech which would later become Civil Disobedience in 1848, just months after leaving Walden Pond.