abolitionist
Example Sentences
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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
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
“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
The efforts of the Joneses and their abolitionist friends had borne fruit.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
