Jehudi Ashmun
1794 – 1828
American

Philanthropist. He established Liberia as a refuge for freed U.S. slaves who wished to return to Africa.

Contemporaries
1801–1877Brigham Young
1827–1915Ellen White
1732–1799George Washington
1811–1896Harriet Beecher Stowe
1818–1893Lucy Stone
1815–1902Elizabeth Stanton
1807–1870Robert E. Lee
1819–1910Julia Howe
1805–1879Angelina Grimke
1805–1879William Garrison
1821–1910Mary Baker Eddy
1817–1895Frederick Douglass
1800–1891George Bancroft