abolitionist
Example Sentences
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The Comstock Act has expressive as well as instrumental appeal for the antiabortion movement, especially abortion abolitionists.
From Los Angeles Times
In addressing the song we have to ask questions about the poet’s bad faith as a slaveholding abolitionist, about the composer’s motives and about our own.
From New York Times
She was kicked out of an abolitionist church before Seneca Falls because she was so fierce about the need for abolition.
From Salon
In 1871, abolitionist Frederick Douglass feared Americans were forgetting the Civil War’s impetus - slavery - when he gave a Decoration Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery.
From Washington Times
She pores over old essays by white abolitionists.
From Los Angeles Times
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