Pioneer doctor and abolitionist Dr. Hiram Rutherford moved to Oakland in 1840 to start his practice in the young town.

Dr. Thomas, the first doctor in Kalamazoo County and a Quaker who avidly supported and led abolitionist efforts in Michigan, first built the house in 1835 on the corner of Cass St. and Centre St.

He was opposed in this effort by Dr. Howe ’ s old friend and fellow abolitionist, Sen. Charles Sumner.

* Dr Beilby Porteus, Bishop of Chester and London, noted abolitionist ( 1731 – 1809 )

The family produced four other sons: William Creighton McDougall, married to abolitionist Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall ; Dr. Charles McDougal, surgeon in the US Army ; Admiral David McDougal, commander of during the Battle of Shimonoseki ; and George P. McDougall, California and Colorado pioneer.

He continued to study medicine under the mentorship of Dr. McDowell and other abolitionist doctors, such as Dr. F. Julius LeMoyne and Dr. Joseph P. Gazzam of Pittsburgh.

Her father was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an abolitionist and the founder of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind.

Holmesburg is the birthplace or residence of some of famous Americans, including Stephen Decatur ( War of 1812 Naval commander ), Matthias W. Baldwin ( founder of the Baldwin Locomotive Works ), Dr. Byrd Peale ( a member of the historic Peale family and leading 19th century abolitionist ), George Albert Castor ( inventor of the ready-made suit that revolutionized the entire garment industry ), and actress Ethel Barrymore.

" Alcott was an abolitionist and a friend of the more radical William Lloyd Garrison.

It is referenced in the 2006 film Amazing Grace, which highlights Newton's influence on the leading British abolitionist William Wilberforce.

In 1856, Anthony further attempted to unify the African-American and women's rights movements when, recruited by abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster, she became an agent for William Lloyd Garrison's American Anti-Slavery Society of New York.

* August 24 – William Wilberforce, British abolitionist ( d. 1833 )

As she led more individuals out of slavery, she was named " Moses " by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, an allusion to the prophet in the Book of Exodus who led the Hebrews to freedom from Egypt.

In early 1859, abolitionist U. S. Senator William H. Seward sold Tubman a small piece of land on the outskirts of Auburn, New York for US $ 1, 200.

* William Wilberforce ( 1759 – 1833 ), MP successively for Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and Bramber, leading abolitionist

Starting in 1832, abolitionist and journalist William Lloyd Garrison organized anti-slavery associations which encouraged the full participation of women.

" The Pankhursts hosted a variety of guests including U. S. abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Indian MP Dadabhai Naoroji, socialist activists Herbert Burrows and Annie Besant, and French anarchist Louise Michel.

The massacre was again remembered in 1858 in a celebration organized William Cooper Nell, an African American abolitionist who saw the death of Crispus Attucks as an opportunity to demonstrate the role of African Americans in the Revolutionary War.

William Wilberforce ( MP, and abolitionist of the slave trade ) and Sir Stamford Raffles ( founder of colonial Singapore ) both briefly resided here, the former being the patron of Mill Hill ’ s first church, Saint Paul ’ s.

* William Allen ( 1770-1843 ), Quaker, philanthropist, scientist, abolitionist, and pioneer of girls ' education – lived most of his life in Stoke Newington.

* William Smith ( abolitionist ) ( 1756 – 1835 ), grandfather of Florence Nightingale, dissenter and British MP

The county was named for William E. Dodge, a New York U. S. Representative and businessman, abolitionist, and " Carpetbagger " who purchased large tracks of timberland in the area after the Civil War.

Fanny's father ( Florence's maternal grandfather ) was the abolitionist and Unitarian William Smith.

The abolitionist movement reached a peak with the activities of William Lloyd Garrison, who was born in Newburyport and raised in its anti-slavery climate.

Originally a dwelling, the ground floor was converted to commercial use around 1845 by William Allinson, a druggist, local historian, and leading Quaker abolitionist.

* William Goodell, abolitionist

* William Brock ( pastor ) ( 1807 – 1875 ), first minister of Bloomsbury Chapel, London, abolitionist and supporter of missionary societies

: William Jessup, judge and abolitionist

During this visit, abolitionist leader William Forster died and was buried here.

The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison criticized Jefferson's inaction at the time, as have the Jefferson historians Merrill Peterson, Gary Nash and Edmund S. Morgan since the late twentieth century.

The same year, William Lloyd Garrison's anti-slavery publication The Liberator reprinted a Boston abolitionist pamphlet containing a poem entitled " The Liberty Bell ", which noted that, at that time, despite its inscription, the bell did not proclaim liberty to all the inhabitants of the land.

William Lloyd Garrison ( December 10, 1805 – May 24, 1879 ) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.

* William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the Liberator, an abolitionist periodical.

But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.

He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights.

" In the 1830s, the bell was adopted as a symbol by abolitionist societies, who dubbed it the " Liberty Bell ".

One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave trade abolitionist,

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.

In the decades of 1870 and 1880, was a period referred to as abolitionist and republican.

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.

He was not an abolitionist, say biographers Nagle and Parsons.

Strongly opposed to the abolitionists who sought to end slavery in the U. S., Booth attended the hanging on December 2, 1859, of abolitionist leader John Brown, who was executed for leading a raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry ( in present-day West Virginia ).

She was unmarried as her parents had refused to let her marry into a northern abolitionist family.

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.

Wedgwood was a prominent slavery abolitionist.

Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the bestselling novel that fueled abolitionist work, was the best known of the anti-slavery novels that portrayed such escapes across the Ohio.

In the 1830s and 1840s, physical anthropology was prominent in the debate about slavery, with the scientific, monogenist works of the British abolitionist James Cowles Prichard ( 1786 – 1848 ) opposing those of the American polygenist Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ).

The area, said to have previously been a slave market, was first settled in 1787 by 400 formerly enslaved Black Britons sent from London, England, under the auspices of the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, an organisation set up by the British abolitionist, Granville Sharp.

Anthony's father Daniel was a cotton manufacturer and abolitionist, a stern but open-minded man who was born into the Quaker religion.

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.

Sojourner Truth (; – November 26, 1883 ) was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist.

The Age of Reason was largely ignored after 1820, except by radical groups in Britain and freethinkers in America, among them Robert G. Ingersoll and the abolitionist Moncure Daniel Conway, who edited his works and wrote the first biography of Paine, favorably reviewed by The New York Times.

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