Activism > Abolition Archives

Hester Lane

Born enslaved, as an adult free woman Hester Lane built her own business and used her success to buy other people out of slavery, as well as working tirelessly as a fundraiser for different organisations.

Jane Johnson

Enslaved woman whose escape to freedom led to precedent-setting legal cases

Maria Webb

1800s Irish philanthropist and author

Nancy Morton

Enslaved woman who fought a legal battle for her freedom

Martha Coffin Pelham Wright

One of five women who planned the women’s right convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, she presided over numerous women’s rights and anti-slavery conventions.

Mary McCracken

Irish radical and philanthropist

Anna Murray Douglass

American abolitionist and wife of Frederick Douglass

Caroline M Severance

1800s feminist activist in Cleveland, known as America’s first clubwoman

Hannah Maria Conant Tracy Cutler

President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association and the American Women’s Suffrage Association, as well as an abolitionist and a leader of the temperance movement in Ohio

Graceanna Lewis

American ornithologist, illustrator, and activist in the anti-slavery, temperance, and women’s suffrage movements.