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Definition of Abolitionists
1. abolitionist [n] - See also: abolitionist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abolitionists
Literary usage of Abolitionists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: From 1817-1882 by Frederick Douglass, John Lobb (1882)
"abolitionists spoken of—Eagerness to know the meaning of word—Consults the ...
Who or what the abolitionists were, I was totally ignorant. ..."
2. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"Dr. Hill, of Virginia, said, in the New School Assembly : The abolitionists have
made the servitude of the slave harder. If I could tell you some of the ..."
3. A History of the United States by William Coligny Doub (1906)
"The number of abolitionists in the North was not very large, even at the beginning
... The abolitionists advocated the immediate freeing of all the slaves, ..."
4. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom by Wilbur Henry Siebert (1898)
"there came to be such stress of feeling between the abolitionists and the other
members, that in many places the former withdrew and organized little ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"TI ^HE abolitionists deserve rebuke; but let it be proportioned to the ...
I say these things not as a partisan of the abolitionists, but from a love of ..."
6. An Inquiry Into the Character and Tendency of the American Colonization, and by William Jay (1835)
"CHARGES AGAINST abolitionists. It requires no great exercise of candor, to admit,
... IT is not enough that abolitionists should be represented as fanatics; ..."
7. A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett by William Leggett, Theodore Sedgwick (1840)
"A mad spirit has gone abroad among our populace—a spirit excited in part, no
doubt, by the proceedings and inflammatory publications of the abolitionists, ..."
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