abolitionist
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- noun
- /ˌæbəˈlɪʃənɪst/
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abolicionista
- Frederick Douglass was a prominent abolitionist who fought tirelessly for the end of slavery in the United States.
- Garrisonian abolitionists
- Abolitionist movement
- abolitionist and suffragist
And as her chapter on slavery brilliantly explains, abolitionists had no monopoly on invoking hell to scare their opponents into repenting.
- And as her chapter on slavery brilliantly explains, abolitionists had no monopoly on invoking hell to scare their opponents into repenting.
- That was people were people grew up and died and then their kids were abolitionists and they grew up and died before slavery was finally abolished.
Examples
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So here we have Frederick Douglass, the former slave turned internationally known abolitionist, who called Dred Scott monstrous.
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We're moving back East, to work with the abolitionists.
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And he was very active in the Abolitionist Movement.
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A strong abolitionist movement was in place well before the outbreak of the Civil War.
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My grandmother was an abolitionist.
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But Wendell Phillips, famous abolitionist, he was pretty good at this, too.
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The author certainly received his share of glowing reviews from the abolitionist press.
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He was very sympathetic to reform groups in Boston, the abolitionist movement being one of them.
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Back in early nineteenth-century France, however, the abolitionist movement was unfolding very differently from its British counterpart.
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Garfield was a staunch abolitionist prior to the Civil War, and he became a brigadier general at only 31 years old, successfully leading the Union troops against the Confederates in a famous battle at Middle Creek, Kentucky.
Synonyms
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A person who works to end slavery
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Etymology
Abolitionist comes from the verb abolish, which is from the Latin abolere meaning 'to do away with'. In the 18th and 19th centuries an abolitionist was a person who worked to end slavery, so the word names someone who wants to 'do away with' that practice.