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Born into slavery, Douglass became an eloquent spokesperson for both black's and women's rights. During and after the Civil War, Douglass became a confidant of presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Douglass also argued for African Americans to be allowed to join the Union army in the fight for their own freedom.

With the founding of his own newspaper, Garrison used the paper and his association with other abolitionists to advocate for the 'immediate and complete' freeing of all slaves.

Following the passage of a law that made it a crime to aid in the escape of slaves, Stowe lent her actions and her words to the effort to help slaves and put an end to slavery. She actively aided fugitive slaves and, with the publication of the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", focused the nation's consciousness on the inhumanity of slavery.

Harriet Tubman served as an abolitionist, emancipator of slaves, military spy and advocate for women's rights. When Civil War broke out, Tubman guided an expedition of Union soldiers on a raid in South Carolina that freed over seven hundred slaves.