Please note: This list intentionally excludes autobiographies, collected letters and collective biographies. For reasons of space, partial titles are sometimes used.

African American Abolitionists

David Blight, Frederick Douglass's Civil War (1989)
George Carol, Segregated Sabbaths: Richard Allen (1973
Thomas Lamont, Rise to Be a People: A Biography of Paul Cuffee (1986)
William McFeely, Frederick Douglass (1991)
Joel Schor, Henry Highland Garnet (1977)
Nell Painter, Sojourner Truth (1996)
Peter Hinks, To Awaken My Afflicted Brethern: David Walker (1997)
Ronald K. Burke, Samuel Ringgold Ward (1995) 
Jane Rhodes, Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1998)
William Cheek and Aimee Lee Cheek, John Mercer Langston (1989)

White Abolitionists

Gerda Lerner, The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina (1967)
Deborah Clifford, Crusader for Freedom: A Life of Lydia Maria Child (1992)
Dorothy Sterling, Ahead of Her time: Abby Kelley [Foster] (1991)
Randolph Runyon, Delia Webster (1996)
Clare Taylor, The Weston Sisters (1995)
Joan Dedrick, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1994)
Andrea Moore Kerr, Lucy Stone (1992)
Ira Brown, Mary Grew (1991)
Robert Abzug, Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld (1980)
Betram Wyatt-Brown, Lewis Tappan  (1969)
John L. Thomas, The  Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison (1963)
James Brewer Stewart, Wendell Phillips (1986)
Stacey Robertson, Parker Pillsbury (2000)
James Brewer Stewart, Joshua Giddings (1970)
Milton Sernett, Abolition's Ax: Beriah Green (1986)
Stephen Oates, To Purge This Land with Blood: John Brown (1984)
 

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