Historical Archives & Public Figures

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

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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

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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

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Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney)

Elizabeth Fry

Great Britain

1780 – 1845 (65 years old)

Philanthrope quaker britannique surnommée « l'Ange des prisons », pionnière du traitement humain des détenus et de l'éducation des prisonnières.

Barking, London, United Kingdom

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Bienheureux Edmund Ignatius Rice

Éamann Iognáid Rís

Ireland

1762 – 1844 (82 years old)

Commerçant irlandais fortuné qui renonça à ses biens après le décès de sa femme pour fonder les Frères Chrétiens et ouvrir des écoles gratuites pour les garçons pauvres de Waterford.

Waterford, Ireland

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Vénérable Catherine Elizabeth McAuley

Catherine McAuley

Ireland

1778 – 1841 (63 years old)

Femme de foi et bienfaitrice irlandaise, fondatrice des Sœurs de la Miséricorde (Sisters of Mercy) consacrées aux soins hospitaliers et à la protection des femmes démunies.

Dublin, Ireland

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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John Woolman

United States

1720 – 1772 (51 years old)

Prédicateur quaker itinérant américain, artisan majeur de l'abandon de l'esclavage par la Société des Amis et pionnier de la justice économique.

York, United Kingdom

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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

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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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Saint Vincent de Paul

Vincent de Paul

France

1581 – 1660 (79 years old)

Prêtre français, figure tutélaire de la charité catholique organisée, fondateur de la Congrégation de la Mission (Lazaristes) et cofondateur des Filles de la Charité.

Paris, France

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