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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.

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.