In 1849, fearing she would be sold, Tubman fled north, connecting with antislavery activists through what came to be known as the Underground Railroad.

The pamphlet called for immediate, universal, and unconditional emancipation - an uncommon position, even amongst antislavery activists, in the 1820s - and in particular condemned colonization plans, arguing:

Hazard was also a committed antislavery activist and published dozens of tracts in support of the American Colonization Society and the Republic of Liberia.

James Redpath (August 24, 1833 in Berwick upon Tweed, England - February 10, 1891, in New York, New York) was an American journalist and antislavery activist.

At this point, antislavery activists seized the day.

In a relatively short time, however, their persistence -aided by pressure from Northern antislavery activists as well as Lincoln's need to intensify a flagging war effort - brought about the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made more than nineteen missions to rescue more than 300 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

He does not include antislavery activists such as Abraham Lincoln or the Republican Party, which called for the gradual ending of slavery.

Albert was an antislavery activist, and Victoria drove Disraeli barking mad with newspaper clippings about the killing of baby seals and, in 1876, Bulgarian civilians.

Many antislavery activists came to regard Vesey as a hero.