abolitionist
Example Sentences
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She was the boon companion of the women’s-rights activist Susan B. Anthony, and she could count among friends and allies the abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Amy and Isaac Post were also abolitionists, passionate about ending the practice of slavery.
From Literature
What about critics who say the self-described police abolitionist should work closer with law enforcement to clean up the park, I told her.
From Los Angeles Times
“Nobody reads them anymore, not since that abolitionist Abe Lincoln lost the Senate contest.”
From Literature
Introverted, romantic and intellectual, she read everything from Walter Scott and Jane Austen to abolitionist tracts and records of Senate debates.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
