Maria W Stewart
Abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Maria W. Stewart was one of the first women of any race to speak in public in the United States. She was also the first Black American woman to write and publish a political manifesto.
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Elizabeth Van Lew
She joined with other Richmond Unionists to create an underground network to hinder the Confederate war effort and give aid and comfort to captured Union soldiers during the United States’ Civil War.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was one of the most outspoken and articulate abolitionists of the 19th century.
Harriet Jacobs
Author of the autobiography, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” The book, now an “American classic,” gives a plain account of the horrors of slavery and her path to freedom.
Amelia Opie
Britihs activist, novelist and poet
Priscilla Baltimore
Born into slavery, she gained her freedom in the early 19th century and became a pioneering figure in American history.
Julia Archibald Holmes
American suffragist and abolitionist, best known for being the first woman to climb Pikes Peak in Colorado in 1858.
Laura Smith Haviland
Pivotal figure in the American abolitionist movement.
Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) was an intellectual of her time, writer, political figure, and perhaps among the first true feminist activists.
Frances Wright
First woman to write a serious book about America; first person to set up an experimental colony, Nashoba near Memphis, with the object of enabling enslaved people to work for their freedom; first woman to co-edit a newspaper in America, first female public orator in America.