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Thomas Clarkson
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Thomas Clarkson

Thomas Clarkson
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1760 – 1846 (86 years old)

Key organizer and indefatigable investigator of the British abolitionist movement who rode 35,000 miles gathering evidence, slave shackles, and eyewitness testimony that enabled the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.

Playford (Suffolk), United Kingdom
William Knibb
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William Knibb

William Knibb
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1803 – 1845 (42 years old)

English Baptist missionary in Jamaica who defied colonial planter mobs, testified before the British Parliament, and founded 'Free Villages' where newly emancipated enslaved families could purchase their own independent land.

Falmouth (Trelawny), Jamaica
Elizabeth Fry
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Elizabeth Fry

Elizabeth Gurney
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1780 – 1845 (65 years old)

Quaker reformer revered as the 'Angel of Prisons' who transformed conditions for incarcerated women and children in Newgate Prison and founded modern prison reform.

Barking, United Kingdom
Samuel Sharpe
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Samuel Sharpe

Samuel Sharpe
🇯🇲 Jamaica
c. 1801 – 1832 (31 years old)

National Hero of Jamaica and enslaved Baptist deacon 'Daddy Sharpe' who organized the massive 1831 Baptist War rebellion involving 60,000 enslaved people, whose moral courage accelerated British parliamentary abolition in 1833.

Montego Bay (St James), Jamaica
Richard Allen
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Richard Allen

Richard Allen
🇺🇸 United States
1760 – 1831 (71 years old)

Founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, the first independent Black denomination in the United States, and foremost civil rights pioneer.

Philadelphia, United States
Absalom Jones
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Absalom Jones

Absalom Jones
🇺🇸 United States
1746 – 1818 (71 years old)

First African American ordained as an Episcopal priest, co-founder of the Free African Society, and heroic nurse during the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic.

Philadelphia, United States
Paul Cuffe
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Paul Cuffe

Paul Cuffe
🇺🇸 United States
1759 – 1817 (58 years old)

African-Wampanoag ship captain, Quaker merchant, and civil rights pioneer who built his own fleet, founded integrated schools, and led early emigration to Sierra Leone.

Westport, United States
Granville Sharp
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Granville Sharp

Granville Sharp
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1735 – 1813 (77 years old)

Pioneering British abolitionist civil servant who financed and litigated the landmark 1772 Somerset v Stewart case ruling slavery illegal on English soil, co-founding the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

Fulham (London), United Kingdom
Benjamin Rush
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Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Rush
🇺🇸 United States
1746 – 1813 (67 years old)

Père fondateur des États-Unis, signataire de la Déclaration d'indépendance, médecin héroïque de l'épidémie de 1793 et père de la psychiatrie américaine.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Anthony Benezet
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Anthony Benezet

Antoine Benezet
🇫🇷 France
1713 – 1784 (71 years old)

French-born American Quaker educator and philosopher hailed as the 'Father of Atlantic Abolitionism', who founded the first public school for Black children in Philadelphia and convinced American and British Quakers to outlaw slavery.

Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), United States
William Penn
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William Penn

William Penn
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1644 – 1718 (73 years old)

Fondateur de la province de Pennsylvanie, pionnier de la liberté religieuse, de la démocratie participative et des traités de paix équitables avec les Amérindiens.

Jordans, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
George Fox
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George Fox

George Fox
🇬🇧 Kingdom of England
1 – 1691 (66 years old)

Fondateur de la Société religieuse des Amis (Quakers), précurseur de l'égalité spirituelle absolue et du témoignage pacifiste de non-violence.

Islington, London, United Kingdom
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