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• The plantocracy argued that abolitionists' efforts were largely responsible for stirring the St.2008, Holger Henke, Karl-Heinz Magister, Constructing vernacular culture in the trans-Caribbean. From the entry St. Dominguan
• Abolitionists argued that race had no place in a free and democratic society as a dividing line.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 59. From the entry residual
• The continued fight between abolitionists and slavers in Missouri caused slave owners to refuge slaves to the Confederate interior.2013, John Christgau, Incident at the Otterville Station: A Civil War Story of Slavery and Rescue, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry slaver
• Rather separate from the abolitionist campaign, although likewise led by anglophone Evangelicals, was a sudden upwelling of commitment to worldwide mission.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 873. From the entry upwelling
• Yet despite these racially egalitarian values, much abolitionist rhetoric exhibited a strong residual commitment to racialist thinking and a palpable devotion to white supremacy.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 59. From the entry residual
• Prison abolitionists are dismissed as utopians and idealists whose ideas are at best unrealistic and impracticable, and, at worst, mystifying and foolish.2003, Angela Y. Davis, chapter 1, in Are Prisons Obsolete?, archived from the original on 19 May 2023, pages 9-10. From the entry impracticable
• Redirecting prosecutorial energy toward transformative justice may also further abolitionist ends by casting light on the criminal legal system's "inability to solve the crises it creates."10 March 2021, “Prosecuting in the Police-less City: Police Abolition's Impact on Local Prosecutors”, in Harvard Law Review, volume 134…. From the entry cast light on
• Fox, William Ewart and the temporary S.A.C.P. secretary, the Quaker Henry Thomas Humphreys, who also investigated spiritualism in the company of the scientist (and life-long abolitionist) Alfred Russel Wallace.2011, James Gregory, Victorians Against the Gallows, →ISBN. From the entry quasi-science
• The palliator of slavery assures the abolitionists that their benevolence is perfectly quixotic — that the negroes are happy and contented, and have no desire to change their lot.2008, Lydia Child, An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, →ISBN. From the entry palliator
• Russell Banks's “Cloudsplitter,” a novel of near-biblical proportions about the abolitionist freedom fighter John Brown, is shaped like an explosive with an exceedingly long and winding fuse.1998 February 22, Walter Kirn, “The Wages of Righteousness”, in The New York Times. From the entry biblical

Meaning of abolitionist

1. adjective In favor of the abolition of any particular institution or practice.
2. adjective In favor of the abolition of slavery.
3. noun A person favoring or advocating for the abolition of any particular institution or practice.

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How do you use abolitionist in a sentence?

Abolitionist is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “This case, and others, drove and enlarged the existing abolitionist movement in the country, opposed, of course, by the merchants and plantation owners who were making a massive profit from the slaves held in various colonies.”

What is a short sentence with abolitionist?

“The plantocracy argued that abolitionists' efforts were largely responsible for stirring the St.”

What does abolitionist mean?

Abolitionist means in favor of the abolition of any particular institution or practice.