Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery and led people to freedom. I hope that answers your question.
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Fredrick Douglas was an African-American writer, orator and statesman. He escaped from slavery in 1838 at the age of 20 years and subsequently became a leader of abolitionist movement.
Frederick Douglas is the most famous one, although there were probably others, whose are less well known. I would think that any escaped slave would be an abolitionist.
Not all of the north thought slavery was bad and the people who were against slavery were in the north because the farms in the south needed them to tend fields and harvest cotton. Then if a slave escaped and became a northern citizen, they would obviously be against slavery.
Haiti became free from slavery because of the leader of slave Revolution Toussaint L'Ouverture. who led them in the Haitian revolution
Sojourner Truth escaped slavery in the year 1826