abolitionist
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Stanton enjoyed what appears to have been a happy marriage to Henry, an abolitionist attorney and journalist who was 10 years her senior.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
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 • Jan. 22, 2026
“Power concedes nothing without a demand,” she told a crowd gathered in Sproul Plaza on that October Thursday in 1964, quoting abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2025
Beshear’s refusal was enormously significant in forestalling a real step backward for the abolitionist movement.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2025
Martin kept abolitionist newspapers and pamphlets in the nook.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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