abolitionist

The exhibit explained that, prior to becoming an abolitionist, he had enslaved people in his household.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist, came eventually to agree with Lincoln.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Other than the Bible, it was the bestselling book in 19th-century America, and it brought the abolitionist movement to mainstream awareness as no politician or orator had done before it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

The bill became the second abolitionist proposal to pass through a committee this spring before time ran out to pass it this session.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

That worst sort, an abolitionist with a printing press.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Influenced by William Goodell, Gerrit Smith, Lysander Spooner and other abolitionists, he began distinguishing the Constitution’s public language from the private intentions of some framers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The book that I’ve written with my colleague Daphna Renan, Supremacy, goes through the history of the court’s power—as well as what people thought of it—from abolitionists through the Civil Rights Movement to the present.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

Known as prison abolitionists, these groups want to see as many prisons close as possible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2025

The bill’s stalling is a sign that abolitionists may seem to be on the back foot.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2025

I knowed right then that if I got out of this stable in Michigan alive I waren’t never gonna play abolitionists again.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis