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Abolition and Anti-Slavery

American Abolitionist and Anti-Slavery Individuals, Organizations and Political Parties

See below for links to information from Scribner’s Dictionary of American biography about abolitionist and anti-slavery individuals, organizations and political parties.

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Please also visit our American Abolitionists website by clicking here. It is presently the largest online database of United States antislavery and abolitionist history.

Individual Abolitionists and Anti-Slavery Activists

See below, or click here, to view a comprehensive list of biographies of American abolitionists and anti-slavery activists. Sources: Scribner’s Dictionary of American Biography; Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography; and others.

For a list that includes only biographies from Scribner’s Dictionary of American Biography, click here.

Abolitionist and Anti-Slavery Organizations

Click on the entries below to view information on American abolitionist and anti-slavery organizations. Source: Scribner’s Dictionary of American Biography.

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Abolitionist and Anti-Slavery Political Parties

Click on the entries below to view information on American abolitionist and anti-slavery political parties. Source: Scribner’s Dictionary of American Biography.

Anti-Slavery Whigs * * NEW * *

Free Soil Party * * UPDATED * *

Liberty Party * * NEW * *

Anti-Slavery Radical Republican Political Leaders * * NEW * *

Members of Congress Who Voted for the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution

Anti-Slavery Members of the Thirty-Eighth Congress [In progress - please check back]

Anti-Slavery Members of the Thirty-Ninth Congress [In progress - please check back]

Anti-Slavery Members of the Fortieth Congress [In progress - please check back]

Comprehensive Biographies of Abolitionists and Anti-Slavery Activists

This is the largest database of abolitionists and anti-slavery activists available. It is presently more than 5,000 printed pages of biographies, with thousands of entries, from multiple scholarly sources.
Sources: Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Scribner’s Dictionary of American Biography, and others.

Aar-Ada: Aaron through Adams, John
Ada: Adams, John Quincy, through Adams, William
Alc-And: Alcott through Andrus
Ant-Aye: Anthony through Ayers

Bab-Bal: Babbit through Ballou
Ban-Bay: Bancroft through Bayard
Bea-Bex: Beaman through Bexley
Bib-Bir: Bibb through Birney
Bla-Bol: Blackburn through Bolles
Bon-Boy: Bond through Boynton
Bra-Bro: Brackett through Brown
Bru-Buf: Bruce through Buffum
Bur-Buz: Burchard through Buzby

Cad-Cat: Cady through Catto
Cha: Chace through Chase
Che-Cin: Cheadle through Cinque
Cla: Claflin through Clayton
Cle-Col: Clement through Colwell
Com-Cow: Comings through Cowles
Cox-Cri: Cox through Crittenden
Cro-Cuy: Crocker through Cuyler

Dag-Day: Daggett through Dayton
Deb-Dic: DeBaptiste through Dickson
Dig-Dow: Digges through Downing
Dra-Dye: Drake through Dyer

Eam-Ell: Eames through Ellsworth
Emb-Ett: Embree through Etting
Eva-Ewi: Evans through Ewing

Fai-Fin: Fairbank through Finney
Fis-Fol: Fish through Follen
Fon-Fow: Fonerdon through Fowler
Fra: Frances through Fraser
Fre-Fus: Freeman through Fussell

Gad-Gan: Gadsen through Gano
Gar: Gardner through Garrison
Gas-Ger: Gasson through Gerry
Gib-Goo: Gibbons through Goodyear
Gor-Gra: Gordon through Gray
Gre: Greeley through Grew
Gri-Gut: Griffin through Guthrie

Hab-Hal: Habersham through Halstead
Ham: Hambleton through Hammond
Han-Haw: Hanby through Hawley
Hay-Haz: Hayden through Hazard
Hea-Hen: Hearn through Henson
Hep-Hit: Hepburn through Hitchcock
Hoa-Hor: Hoar through Horton
Hot-How: Hotchkiss through Howland

I: Ide through Ives

Jac-Jan: Jackson through Janney
Jay-Jes: Jay through Jessup
Joc-Jus: Jocelyn through Justice

Kag-Key: Kagi through Keys
Kil-Kor: Kilbourn through Korner

Lad-Lew: Ladd through Lewis
Lib-Lin: Libby through Lines
Lip-Lou: Lippencott through Louge
Lov: Love through Lovejoy
Low-Lym: Lowe through Lyman