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Abolitionist

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ab·o·li·tion·ism  (b-lsh-nzm)
n.
Advocacy of the abolition of slavery.
abo·lition·ist n.
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Noun1.Abolitionistabolitionist - a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
emancipationist
crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer - a disputant who advocates reform
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Public opinion threatens the abolitionist with death, if he venture to the South; and drags him with a rope about his middle, in broad unblushing noon, through the first city in the East.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
Why, wife, you are getting to be an abolitionist, quite.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
People would call me a low- down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum -- but that don't make no difference.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
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