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Harriet Beecher Stowe, engraving based on an oil painting by Alonzo Chappel, published by Johnson Fry & Co, 1872. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) became famous in 1852 with the publication of her anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Library...

Olaudah Equiano (l. c. 1745-1797), the abolitionist writer, by the English artist Daniel Orme (l. 1766-1837), frontispiece of Equiano's autobiography (published 1789).

Passmore Williamson, abolitionist and member of the Underground Railroad, c. 1856-1860, photograph by Guterkunst & Brothers, 1856-1860. Boston Public Library.

Bust of Sojourner Truth, bronze sculpture by Artis Lane, 2009. Emancipation Hall, Capitol Visitor Center, US Capitol. Truth is the first African American woman honored with statuary in the US Capitol.

Former slaves and abolitionists Ellen and William Craft, as pictured in The Liberator, the abolitionist newspaper.

Front page of Freedom's Journal, 30 March 1827, the first newspaper owned, operated, and contributed to by African Americans in the USA. David Walker, the abolitionist, wrote for Freedom's Journal beginning in 1827. Photograph/scan by the...

William Still Historical Marker at 244 S. 12th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While living here, William Still was an Underground Railroad agent who helped slaves escape and kept records so relatives could find them later. A wealthy coal...

Abolitionist and Quaker Amy Post in the 1860s. Amy Post is best known as the first person to suggest to Harriet Jacobs that she write her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Photographer unknown; image included in...

Harriet Jacobs (l. c. 1813-1897) author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Photograph by C. M. Gilbert, Gilbert Studios, Washington, D.C., 1894, restored by Adam Cuerden.

The Rev. James MacGregor Monument, Pictou, Nova Scotia. James MacGregor (1759-1830) was a Presbyterian minister and abolitionist who wrote the first anti-slavery tract in Canada and helped fugitive slaves arriving there from the USA. Photograph...