Editing Abolitionism (section)

==Notable abolitionists==
{{See also|List of abolitionists}}
White and black opponents of slavery, who played a considerable role in the movement. This list includes some escaped slaves, who were traditionally called abolitionists.
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* [[John Quincy Adams]]
* [[Abigail Adams]]
* [[Lydia Maria Child]]
* [[Prudence Crandall]]
* [[Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda]]
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* [[Phillis Wheatley]]
* [[Angelina Grimké]]
* [[Sarah Grimké]]
* [[Jeremy Bentham]]
* [[Benjamin Lay]]
* [[James McCune Smith]]
* [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]]
* [[William Wells Brown]]
* [[Oren B. Cheney|Oren Burbank Cheney]]
* [[Thomas Clarkson]]
* [[Ellen and William Craft]]
* [[Frederick Douglass]]
* [[Sarah Mapps Douglass]]
* [[Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville|Henry Dundas]]{{efn|Henry Dundas achieved the first victory in the House of Commons for the abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade in 1792.}}
* [[John Gregg Fee]]
* [[Henry Highland Garnet]]
* [[William Lloyd Garrison]]
* [[Elijah P. Lovejoy]]
* [[Abbé Grégoire]]
* [[Frances Ellen Watkins Harper]]
* [[Johns Hopkins]]
* [[Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil]]
* [[John Laurens]]
* [[Toussaint Louverture]]
* [[Solomon Northup]]
* [[Harriet Martineau]]
* [[John Stuart Mill]]
* [[Charles Miner]]
* [[Joaquim Nabuco]]
* [[Daniel O'Connell]]
* [[José do Patrocínio]]
* [[William B. Preston]]
* [[André Rebouças]]
* [[Granville Sharp]]
* [[Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh]]
* [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]
* [[Henry David Thoreau]]
* [[Sojourner Truth]]
* [[Harriet Tubman]]
* [[Nat Turner]]
* [[David Walker (abolitionist)|David Walker]]
* [[William Wilberforce]]{{efn|Wilberforce was a leader of the abolitionism movement. He was an English politician who became a Member of Parliament. His involvement in the political realm lead to a change in ideology.}}
* [[John Woolman]]
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