abolitionism

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Kenneth, who is the great-great-great-grandson of Frederick Douglass, added "We taught the students today that Frederick wasn't much older than they are now when he started his career in abolitionism and activism."

From BBC

It’s the same impulse that supported 19th century abolitionism and reconstruction after the Civil War.

From Salon

As Dorothy Roberts writes in her book “Torn Apart,” you eventually come around to abolitionism because this system can’t be fixed.

From Los Angeles Times

It persuaded her to devote herself to abolitionism.

From New York Times

For their part, pro-slavery Southerners had long rehearsed their own conspiracy against what they viewed as the religious zealots in the vanguard of abolitionism, whom they called the “Black Republicans.”

From New York Times