Similar words: abolitionism, abolition, volition, political action committee, monopolistic competition, revisionist, impressionistic, admonition. Meaning: [‚æbə'lɪʃənɪst] n. a reformer who favors abolishing slavery.
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31 In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a group of about 20 men in a raid on Harper's Ferry.
32 During the 1840s and 1850s, the abolitionist movement–a social movement organized in the North to abolish the institution of slavery–gained support.
33 Darwin's family was passionately abolitionist and he continually mixed with people devoted to the cause.
34 "Darwin's starting point, " they write, "was the abolitionist belief in blood kinship, a 'common descent' " of all human beings.
35 The gag rule made great numbers of people in the North very angry. Because of it, these people began to support the abolitionist movement.
36 The abolitionist dedicated their whole life to this great revolution.
37 He chose the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of President Abraham Lincoln and the abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
38 Henry Ward Beecher was an abolitionist who liked to speak his mind.
39 They organized speeches by abolitionist leaders. And they helped hide slaves who were fleeing to freedom.
40 Plymouth was the home of the great abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher and a stop on the Underground Railroad.
41 The stereotypic Abolitionist, Robber Baron, Progressive Reformer, New Dealer is as good a place as any to begin understanding the past,(http://sentencedict.com/abolitionist.html) but each of these inherited images needs critical adjusting.
42 Harriet Beecher Stowe's clergyman father earned fame as an abolitionist and an evangelist.
43 An evangelist, abolitionist, and feminist, Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) is remembered for her unschooled but remarkable voice raised in support of abolitionism, the freedmen, and women's rights.
44 Yet despite his hopes for the political system and his status as international celebrity of the abolitionist movement, Douglass refused to disavow violence as a means of destroying slavery.
45 Though none was an out - and - abolitionist, they were still closely concerned with the outcome of the struggle.
46 Rumors Abolitionist sympathies did not enhance the popularity of the Macintoshes.
47 Escaping to Massachusetts in 1838, at age 21, Douglass was helped by abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison and began to lecture for anti-slavery societies.
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