The name of the NY abolitionist whose home was destroyed in 1835 was Lewis Tappan. This happened because an angry mob set the house on fire after ransacking it.
Frederick Douglas is the most famous one, although there were probably others, whose are less well known. I would think that any escaped slave would be an abolitionist.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was so outraged by the Fugitive Slave Act that she wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as a protest against it.
Charles Sumner was a radical abolitionist senator of the Republican Party. He was against Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction. Referring to Lincoln's public speech of Apr. 11 1865, with which the President compared the new Government of Louisiana (set up in accordance with the conditions stated by the above mentioned plan) "as an eggs whose chick had not born yet", commented acidly in a letter: " ....crocodile eggs can produce only crocodiles".
a leader
Leader whose reforms included the freeing of citizens who had been forced into slavery
Lewis Tappan :)
lenin
sojourner truth
Elijah Lovejoy
Frederick Douglass
Charles Sumner
Jay Cooke
Frederick Douglas is the most famous one, although there were probably others, whose are less well known. I would think that any escaped slave would be an abolitionist.
one whose occupation is the wholesale purchase and retail sale of goods for profit
Jay Cooke
Marco Polo
1. Olaudah was an African writer whose experiences as a slave prompted him to become involved in the British abolition movement. he published his autobiography, 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'. He travelled widely promoting the book, which became immensely popular, helped the abolitionist cause, and made Equiano a wealthy man.