Famous Abolitionists and Opponents of Slavery Home Famous People Professions Abolitionists 1. Sojourner Truth 2. Frederick Douglass 3. John Brown 4. Harriet Tubman 5. Elizabeth Cady Stanton 6. William Wilberforce 7. Harriet Beecher Stowe 8. William Lloyd Garrison 9. John Laurens 10. Thomas Elkins 11. Angelina Grimké 12. Theodore Dwight Weld 13. Lucretia Mott