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abolitionist

[ab-uh-lish-uh-nist] / ˌæb əˈlɪʃ ə nɪst /
NOUN
person wanting something ended
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Some prosecutors aren’t waiting for the passage of abolitionist laws.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

His mother, who introduced him at age 5 to Walden Pond, was an abolitionist who ran a station on the Underground Railroad, for which he would act as a conductor.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

William Lloyd Garrison had been both an abolitionist and a pacifist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

“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

“Why, my dear brothers can you not see the deep laid scheme of the clergy against us as lecturers?” she wrote in a letter to two abolitionist leaders.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling



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