abolitionist
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Abolitionist lawyers were aided by politicians in wresting the issue away from ethicists and philosophers, moralists and clergy, and making the courts the arena for debate.
From Slate • Oct. 1, 2024
Prabhu, with the Abolitionist Law Center, described Bozeman as “the sweetest, sweetest person.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024
Other books, such as Ruha Benjamin’s Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, followed on how algorithms needed to be changed to increase economic opportunities and decrease racial bias.
From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2022
Abolitionist Rodney French, a Massachusetts merchant and politician, called it the “most disgraceful, atrocious, unjust, detestable, heathenish, barbarous, diabolical, man-degrading, woman-murdering, demon-pleasing, Heaven-defying act ever perpetrated.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2022
Syracuse was an Abolitionist stronghold, and the church bells were used to give the alarm whenever a fugitive was in danger.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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