Abolitionists

Before the momentous signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, advocates of abolition had been working tirelessly for decades – men and women who demanded justice, equality, dignity, and freedom.

It’s time their stories are tolled. 

Keep the voices of abolitionists and the spirit of freedom alive and ringing by sponsoring one of the Emancipation Bells. Your name will be cast in bronze opposite an American hero.

First Octave

Freedom Seekers
$1,000
Sub-Bourdon / Tone: F
Frederick Douglass
Leadership Sponsorship
Bourdon / Tone: G
Harriet Tubman
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 3 / Tone: A#
Sojourner Truth
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 4 / Tone: C
David Walker
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 5 / Tone: C#
Mary Ann Shadd
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 6 / Tone: D
William Still
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 7 / Tone: D#
Edmonson sisters
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 8 / Tone: E
Forten family
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 9 / Tone: F
Robert Purvis
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 10 / Tone: F#
Charles Henry Langston
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 11 / Tone: G
John Mercer Langston
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 12 / Tone: G#

Second Octave

David Ruggles
$20,000
No. 13 / Tone: A
Lucy and Thomas Dalton
$19,500
No. 14 / Tone: A#
Frances Harper
$19,000
No. 15 / Tone: B
Sarah Parker Remond
$18,500
No. 16 / Tone: C
Henry O. Wagoner
$18,000
No. 17 / Tone: C#
Lewis and Harriet Hayden
$17,500
No. 18 / Tone: D
George T. Downing
$17,000
No. 19 / Tone: D#
Beman family
$16,500
No. 20 / Tone: E
Hetty Reckless
$16,000
No. 21 / Tone: F
Charles Lenox Remond
$15,000
No. 22 / Tone: F#
Theodore S. Wright
$15,000
No. 23 / Tone: G
William Cooper Nell
$14,500
No. 24 / Tone: G#

Third Octave

Bustill family
$14,000
No. 25 / Tone: A
John Rock
$13,500
No. 26 / Tone: A#
John and Mary Meachum
$13,000
No. 27 / Tone: B
James McCune Smith
$12,500
No. 28 / Tone: C
Anna Murray Douglass
$12,000
No. 29 / Tone: C#
Samuel Ringgold Ward
$11,500
No. 30 / Tone: D
William Wells Brown
$11,000
No. 31 / Tone: D#
James W. C. Pennington
$10,500
No. 32 / Tone: E
Moses Dickson
$10,000
No. 33 / Tone: F
Maria W. Stewart
$9,500
No. 34 / Tone: F#
Jermain and Caroline Loguen
$9,000
No. 35 / Tone: G
Lucy Stanton
$8,500
No. 36 / Tone: G#

Fourth Octave

Charles L. Reason
$8,000
No. 37 / Tone: A
Harriet Jacobs
$7,500
No. 38 / Tone: A#
Henry and Mary Bibb
$7,000
No. 39 / Tone: B
John and Mary Jones
$6,500
No. 40 / Tone: C
J. Sella Martin
$6,000
No. 41 / Tone: C#
Eunice Davis
$5,500
No. 42 / Tone: D
Leonard Grimes
No. 43 is sponsored by:
Camden Miller
William Howard Day
$4,500
No. 44: Tone: E
Eliza Ann Gardner
$4,000
No. 45 / Tone: F
William Whipper
$3,500
No. 46 / Tone: F#
Sarah Mapps Douglass
$3,000
No. 47 / Tone: G
Hester Lane
$2,500
No. 48 / Tone: G#
William G. Allen
$2,000
No. 49 / Tone: A
Phillis Wheatley
No. 50 is sponsored by:
Jacqui Michel & David Weisman
Eliza Day
No. 51 is sponsored by:
Maureen Macfadden
Susan Paul
No. 52 is dedicated in memory of:
Paul & Naomi Wittig

Ring of Allies

William Lloyd Garrison
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 1
Lydia Maria Child
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 2
Grimké sisters
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 3
People of Oberlin, Ohio
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 4
Theodore Dwight Weld
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 5
Mary Grew
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 6
John Brown
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 7
Ottawa Chief Kinjeino
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 8
Benjamin Lay
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 9
Adolph Douai
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 10
Gerrit Smith
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 11
Abby Kelley Foster
Leadership Sponsorship
No. 12