| SOJOURNERTRUTH | *Former slave who became an abolitionist and women's rights activist |
| DOUGLASS | *I am a runaway slave, an abolitionist, and a best-selling author |
| TUBMAN | Harriet ___, former slave who helped create the Underground Railroad (6) |
| CRISPUS | ___ Attucks, Revolutionary War casualty who posthumously became an abolitionist symbol |
| SUSANBANTHONY | US abolitionist and women's rights activist (1820-1906) (5,1,7) |
| MOTT | Lucretia _, abolitionist and women's rights advocate |
| MARIA | ___ Bello, US actress and women's rights activist (5) |
| BESANT | Annie, educationist and women's rights activist born in 1847 (6) |
| HELOT | Former slave the Spanish must have smuggled outside |
| FUTON | Former slave |
| FREEDMAN | Former slave |
| CALLWOOD | June___ Journalist and womens rights advocate ) |
| SOCIETY | Group campaigning for gender equality and women's rights (7,7) |
| FAWCETT | Group campaigning for gender equality and women's rights (7,7) |
| JOHNBROWN | He led an abolitionist raid on Harpers Ferry and his story is told in an upcoming 2020 Showtime miniseries: 2 wds. |
| ALCOTT | Abolitionist and suffragist who wrote tales about Jo's boys, little women and an old-fashioned girl (6) |
| LIBERIA | 2011 cowinners Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee won for their struggle for the safety of women and women's rights in this African country |
| HARRIETTUBMAN | American abolitionist and political activist, 1822-1913 (7,6) |
| SPARTACUS | Roman slave who led an uprising against Roman legions (9) |
| AESOP | Greek slave who wrote The Boy Who Cried Wolf |
