abolitionism
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In his early 20s, Clay attended Yale, where he for the first time encountered abolitionism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
They cherished the freedom their newly adopted country afforded them and saw the radical movement known as abolitionism as a threat to national unity.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025
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 ● Apr. 19, 2024
It’s the same impulse that supported 19th century abolitionism and reconstruction after the Civil War.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2023
In either case, Mr. Davis's proposition, if carried out, is practical abolitionism; and we have yet to learn how a tottering edifice can be rendered any more stable by the removal of its acknowledged "cornerstone."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various
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