abolitionist
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History textbooks often include the story of the Underground Railroad, an organized network of secret routes, places and people that guided enslaved populations from the South to abolitionist Northern states.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Some prosecutors aren’t waiting for the passage of abolitionist laws.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
A firsthand account by an escaped slave who became a famous abolitionist and orator, this memoir reframed slavery as coerced labor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 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
After graduation, she became a paid lecturer in the abolitionist movement.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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