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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
Lalla Masuda
Humanitarian & Peace
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Lalla Masuda

لالة مسعودة الوزكيتية
🇲🇦 Morocco
c. 1520 – 1591 (~71 years old)

Influential Saadian Queen Mother, wife of Mohammed ash-Sheikh and mother of Ahmad al-Mansur, revered as 'Al-Hurra' for her extensive public works, schools, bridges, and care for the impoverished.

Marrakesh, Morocco
Bernardino de Sahagun
Humanitarian & Peace
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Bernardino de Sahagun

Bernardino de Sahagun
🇪🇸 Spain
c. 1499 – 1590 (91 years old)

Franciscan friar and visionary linguist acclaimed as the 'First Anthropologist of the Americas', who spent sixty years documenting Nahua culture, religion, and botany in the twelve-volume bilingual Florentine Codex.

Mexico City, Mexico
Francisco de Vitoria
Humanitarian & Peace
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Francisco de Vitoria

Francisco de Vitoria
🇪🇸 Spain
c. 1483 – 1546 (63 years old)

Renaissance Dominican theologian and jurist of the School of Salamanca whose lectures 'De Indis' laid the foundations of modern international law, human rights, and the sovereign equality of indigenous peoples.

Salamanca, Spain
Antonio de Montesinos
Humanitarian & Peace
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Antonio de Montesinos

Fray Antonio de Montesinos
🇪🇸 Spain
c. 1475 – 1540 (65 years old)

Spanish Dominican friar who delivered the historic Advent sermon of 1511 on Hispaniola, the first public denunciation of European mistreatment and enslavement of indigenous peoples in the New World.

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Sayyida Manoubia
Humanitarian & Peace
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Sayyida Manoubia

عائشة المنوبية (السيدة المنوبية)
🇹🇳 Tunisia
1199 – 1267 (68 years old)

Revered 13th-century Sufi mystic and humanitarian saint of Tunis, disciple of Abu Said al-Baji and Shadhili master, celebrated for her radical asceticism, public preaching, and defense of the impoverished.

La Manouba (Tunis), Tunisia
Abu al-Abbas al-Sabti
Humanitarian & Peace
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Abu al-Abbas al-Sabti

أبو العباس السبتي (أحمد بن جعفر الخزرجي)
🇲🇦 Morocco
c. 1129 – 1204 (75 years old)

The supreme patron saint of Marrakech among the Seven Saints, whose mystical philosophy centered entirely on radical charity, feeding the poor, and social solidarity.

Marrakech, Morocco
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