Abolitionists
Speakers
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist speaker, editor and underground stationmaster
Angelina & Sarah Grimké
Quaker co-writer of “American Slavery as it is”, 1839
Sojourner Truth
Abolitionist traveling speaker
Writers
Hinton R. Helper
Anti-slavery author, “Impending Crisis of the South”, 1859
Frances Anne Kemble
British actress and author of “Journey to a Georgian Plantation”, 1839
Ellis Gray Loring
Attorney for the “Med” case, Boston 1836
Rev. Samuel J. May
Anti-slavery minister and author, “Fugitive Slave Law...”, 1861
William Still
Author of “The Underground Railroad”, 1872 and Secretary of Philly Vigilance Committee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, 1851, 1852, 1853
David Walker
Author of “Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World”
Theodore D. Weld
Author of “American Slavery As it Is”, 1839
Solomon Northup
Author of “12 Years A Slave”, 1853
Harriet Jacobs
Author of “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”
Editors
Horace Greeley
Editor of the "New York Herald Tribune" and critic of the Dred Scott Case
William Lloyd Garrison
Editor of the Anti-slavery newspaper “The Liberator”
Elijah P. Lovejoy
Anti-slavery editor, Alton, Illinois, martyred
Underground Railroad
Stationmasters
Levi & Catherine Coffin
Stationmaster and wife in Fountain City, Indiana
Thomas Garrett
Leading Stationmaster, Wilmington, Delaware
John & Jean Rankin
Leading underground railroad stationmaster, Ripley, Ohio
Adam Lowry Rankin
Son of stationmaster and witness to sale of slaves on Ohio River
Conductors
John Hunn
Co-conspirator with stationmaster, Thomas Garrett
John P. Parker
Leading conductor of the Underground Railroad, Ripley, Ohio
Alexander M. Ross
Hired by President Lincoln to uncover Confederate spy ring in Canada, 1863
Harriet Tubman
Leading underground conductor, Maryland
Stockholders
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Member of the “Secret Six” and financial backer of John Brown
Samuel G. Howe
Member of the “Secret Six” and financial backer of John Brown
Julie Ward Howe
Anti-Slavery activist, writer of “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Theodore Parker
Member of the “Secret Six” and financial backer of John Brown
Franklin Sanborn
Member of the “Secret Six” and financial backer of John Brown
Col. Robert Gould Shaw
Led 54th black Mass. Regiment against Ft. Wagner in 1863 – massacred
Gerrit Smith
Member of the “Secret Six” and financial backer of John Brown
George L. Stearns
Member of the “Secret Six” and financial backer of John Brown
Vigilance Committees
David Ruggles
Secretary, New York City Vigilance Committee
Dr. Benjamin Rush
Anti-slavery physician and signer of the "Declaration of Independence"