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Father Damien (Saint Damien of Molokai)
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Father Damien (Saint Damien of Molokai)

Jozef De Veuster
🇧🇪 Belgium
3 January 1840 – 15 April 1889 (49 years old)

Father Damien was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary who volunteered to minister to the quarantined leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Living among the outcast lepers for sixteen years, he built homes, hospitals, and churches, contracted Hansen's disease himself, and died a martyr of charity, canonized in 2009.

Leuven / Kalaupapa, Belgium
Henry Bergh
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Henry Bergh

Henry Bergh
🇺🇸 United States
1813 – 1888 (74 years old)

Visionary humanitarian who founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and co-founded the world's first child protection society.

Brooklyn, United States
Dorothea Lynde Dix
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Dorothea Lynde Dix

Dorothea Dix
🇺🇸 United States
1802 – 1887 (85 years old)

Réformatrice américaine et avocate des aliénés mentaux, créatrice des premiers asiles psychiatriques modernes et surintendante des infirmières durant la guerre de Sécession.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Lord Shaftesbury
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Lord Shaftesbury

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1801 – 1885 (84 years old)

Foremost British social reformer of the Victorian era who dedicated fifty years in Parliament to abolishing child labor in coal mines and factories, passing the Ten Hours Act, and establishing Ragged Schools for destitute children.

Wimborne St Giles (Dorset), United Kingdom
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips

Wendell Phillips
🇺🇸 United States
1811 – 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
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Mary Jane Seacole

Mary Jane Grant
🇯🇲 Jamaica
c. 23 November 1805 – 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
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Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child
🇺🇸 United States
1802 – 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
Angelina Grimke
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Angelina Grimke

Angelina Emily Grimke Weld
🇺🇸 United States
1805 – 1879 (74 years old)

Fiery American abolitionist orator and writer who became the first woman to address an American legislative body, author of the celebrated 1836 'Appeal to the Christian Women of the South'.

Boston (Massachusetts), United States
Sarah Grimke
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Sarah Grimke

Sarah Moore Grimke
🇺🇸 United States
1792 – 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
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