Liberty Party Leaders, Anti-Slavery Activists and Opponents of Slavery

See below for links to biographies of Liberty Party leaders, members and supporters.

The following is a list of Liberty Party Leaders, anti-slavery activists and opponents of slavery. This list was drawn from a number of primary and secondary sources. The two principle sources that we have used are Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1888) and Scribner’s Dictionary of American Biography (1927).

At present, this list includes more than 140 names.

We are including in this list all anti-slavery Liberty Party activists and opponents of slavery, whatever their motives, whether humanitarian, or economic and political. Some of these individuals were against slavery in principle, on moral grounds. We are also including individuals regardless of their orientation toward the ending of slavery.

This list is a work in progress. We intend to continue our research and add more names to this list. We will also be including biographical sketches of each of these individuals and additional references.

This list was prepared by Eric Saul. Special thanks to Amy Fiske for help in the preparation and organization of this compilation and manuscript. It is a labor of love and devotion for more than three years. Amy’s great great great uncle was Major General Henry Warner Slocum, who was commander of the Twelfth, Fourteenth, and Twentieth Corps of the Union Army and commander of the Army of Georgia in the Georgia and Carolinas Campaigns, November 1864 through April 1865. Slocum participated in the abolition movement before the Civil War.

Members and Supporters of the Liberty Party

Click on the entries below to view an annotated list of biographies of Liberty Party leaders, members and supporters. Source: Scribner’s Dictionary of American Biography. See also below for index.

Click HERE for biographies of Liberty Party members and supporters from Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography on our American Abolitionists website.

Introduction to the Liberty Party

Introduction

National Leadership

James Gillespie Birney
Reverend William Goodell

A-B

Ackley through Burrit

C

Carpenter through Curtis

D-G

De Baptiste through Grosvenor

H-K

Hale through King

L-M

Lane through Mott

N-P

Newhall through Porter

Q-S

Quincy through Swisshelm

T-V

Tappan through Van Vleet

W-Z

Walker through Wright

Proceedings of Liberty Party Conventions

Proceedings

Sources:
Dictionary of American Biography, Volumes I-X, Edited by Dumas Malone, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1930.

Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volumes I-VI, Edited by James Grant Wilson & John Fiske, New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1888-1889.