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Wendell Phillips
Humanitarian & Peace
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Wendell Phillips

Wendell Phillips
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1811 โ€“ 1884 (72 years old)

Renowned American orator known as 'Abolition's Golden Trumpet', who abandoned his elite legal career to become the foremost orator of the American abolitionist movement, succeeding Garrison as president of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Milton (Massachusetts), United States
Mary Jane Seacole
Humanitarian & Peace
5
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Mary Jane Seacole

Mary Jane Grant
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Jamaica
c. 23 November 1805 โ€“ 14 May 1881 (75 years old)

Mary Seacole was a Jamaican-born nurse, doctress, and businesswoman of mixed Scottish and Creole heritage who overcame racial prejudice to establish the 'British Hotel' behind front lines during the Crimean War. Applying West Indian herbal medicine and practical nursing to treat cholera, dysentery, and battlefield trauma, she was voted the greatest Black Briton in history.

Kensal Green, London, United Kingdom
Lydia Maria Child
Humanitarian & Peace
2
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Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1802 โ€“ 1880 (78 years old)

Prolific American author and abolitionist whose 1833 masterpiece 'An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans' galvanized the anti-slavery movement and sacrificed her literary career for human justice.

Wayland (Massachusetts), United States
Sarah Grimke
Humanitarian & Peace
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Sarah Grimke

Sarah Moore Grimke
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1792 โ€“ 1873 (81 years old)

Southern-born abolitionist and women's rights pioneer who rejected her slaveholding family's wealth to campaign across the North, author of the groundbreaking 1838 feminist work 'Letters on the Equality of the Sexes'.

Boston (Massachusetts), United States
Harriet Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland
Humanitarian & Peace
4
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Harriet Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland

Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
21 May 1806 โ€“ 27 October 1868 (62 years old)

Harriet Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, was an influential British philanthropist, abolitionist campaigner, and Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria. In 1852, she authored the 'Stafford House Address', mobilizing over 560,000 British women to petition against American slavery, and hosted Harriet Beecher Stowe in London, funding transatlantic abolitionist and refugee relief.

Trentham, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Paul Bogle
Humanitarian & Peace
3
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Paul Bogle

Paul Bogle
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Jamaica
c. 1822 โ€“ 1865 (43 years old)

National Hero of Jamaica and Baptist deacon who led the historic 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion to protest crushing poverty, starvation, and legal disenfranchisement of formerly enslaved Black Jamaican peasants.

Morant Bay (Saint Thomas), Jamaica
Robert Owen
Humanitarian & Peace
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Robert Owen

Robert Owen
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
1771 โ€“ 1858 (87 years old)

Industriel gallois et pionnier du socialisme utopique, pรจre du mouvement coopรฉratif, crรฉateur de la communautรฉ modรจle de New Lanark et inventeur de la journรฉe de huit heures.

Newtown, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
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