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Harriet Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland
Humanitarian & Peace
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Harriet Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland

Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower
🇬🇧 Great Britain
21 May 1806 – 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
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Paul Bogle

Paul Bogle
🇯🇲 Jamaica
c. 1822 – 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
George William Gordon
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George William Gordon

George William Gordon
🇯🇲 Jamaica
c. 1820 – 1865 (45 years old)

National Hero of Jamaica, wealthy mixed-race landowner, and elected member of the Jamaican House of Assembly who sacrificed his life defending the human and economic rights of the Black peasant majority.

Kingston, Jamaica
Robert Owen
Humanitarian & Peace
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Robert Owen

Robert Owen
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1771 – 1858 (87 years old)

Industriel gallois et pionnier du socialisme utopique, père du mouvement coopératif, créateur de la communauté modèle de New Lanark et inventeur de la journée de huit heures.

Newtown, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
Edward Bickersteth
Humanitarian & Peace
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Edward Bickersteth

Edward Bickersteth
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1786 – 1850 (63 years old)

Pasteur et militant humanitaire britannique, secrétaire de la Church Mission Society, promoteur de l'émancipation des esclaves en Sierra Leone et de l'Alliance évangélique.

Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Thomas Clarkson
Humanitarian & Peace
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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
Humanitarian & Peace
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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
Humanitarian & Peace
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Elizabeth Fry

Elizabeth Gurney
🇬🇧 Great Britain
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
Humanitarian & Peace
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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
Humanitarian & Peace
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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
Humanitarian & Peace
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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
Humanitarian & Peace
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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
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