Amelia Opie
Britihs activist, novelist and poet
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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.
Mary Prince
British abolitionist and memoirist
Alice Stone Blackwell
American suffraigst and writer
Lydia Maria Child
American writer whose 1825 novel, “The Rebels, a Tale of the Revolution,” was very popular.
Jane Grey Swisshelm
American journalist, anti-slavery agitator and war nurse