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synonyms for abolitionism

  • autonomy
  • citizenship
  • democracy
  • emancipation
  • exemption
  • immunity
  • liberation
  • privilege
  • release
  • relief
  • self-determination
  • self-government
  • sovereignty
  • abolition
  • autarchy
  • deliverance
  • delivery
  • discharge
  • disengagement
  • enfranchisement
  • franchise
  • impunity
  • liberty
  • manumission
  • parole
  • prerogative
  • probation
  • rescue
  • salvage
  • salvation
  • disimprisonment
  • extriction
  • home rule
  • representative government

antonyms for abolitionism

MOST RELEVANT
  • responsibility
  • hold
  • imprisonment
  • incarceration
  • restraint
  • retention
  • captivity
  • communism
  • confinement
  • difficulty
  • government
  • limitation
  • reserve
  • restriction
  • servitude
  • slavery
  • subjection
  • subordination
  • suppression
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How to use abolitionism in a sentence

It should not be forgotten that Franklin and the other founders sparked the move toward liberty, the fall of monarchy and aristocracy, but also the rise of abolitionism.
KEN BURNS' NEW DOCUMENTARY SHOWS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN ALL HIS CONTRADICTIONSCRAIG BRUCE SMITHAPRIL 4, 2022TIME
The meeting condemned Lovejoy's writings and speeches, and voted that Abolitionism must be suppressed in the town.
HISTORIC ADVENTURESRUPERT S. HOLLAND
Only one chapter of this large work is devoted primarily to the plantation life and abolitionism.
THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY, VOLUME 7, 1922VARIOUS
It is well they should emigrate, to show admiring foreigners the beauties of American abolitionism.
THE AMERICAN PREJUDICE AGAINST COLORWILLIAM G. ALLEN
Previous to the war no class of persons were louder in their denunciation of Abolitionism than the clergy of the North.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: WAS HE A CHRISTIAN?JOHN B. REMSBURG
The year 1837 is the culmination of the first period of abolitionism in Illinois.
LINCOLN, THE POLITICIANT. AARON LEVY
A foe to slavery, yet for a long time he was not a friend of abolitionism.
LINCOLN, THE POLITICIANT. AARON LEVY
I earnestly desire that abolitionism may lay aside the form of public agitation, and seek its end by wiser and milder means.
SLAVERYWILLIAM E. CHANNING
I think it right to state, that my views of abolitionism have been founded in part, perhaps chiefly, on the testimony of others.
SLAVERYWILLIAM E. CHANNING
Of this high-handed measure he now makes his boast in New-York, one of the hot-beds of Abolitionism.
ABOLITION FANATICISM IN NEW YORKFREDERICK DOUGLASS
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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