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View synonyms for abolitionism
abolitionism
[ ab-uh-lish-uh-niz-uhm ]
noun
- the principle or policy of abolition, especially ending slavery as an institution in the U.S. and emancipating African Americans.
abolitionism
- The belief that slavery should be abolished. In the early nineteenth century, increasing numbers of people in the northern United States held that the nation's slaves should be freed immediately, without compensation to slave owners. John Brown , Frederick W. Douglass , William Lloyd Garrison , Sojourner Truth , and Harriet Tubman were well-known abolitionists.
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Notes
Abolitionism in the United States was an important factor leading to the Civil War .
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Word History and Origins
Origin of abolitionism1
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Example Sentences
The meeting condemned Lovejoy's writings and speeches, and voted that Abolitionism must be suppressed in the town.
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Only one chapter of this large work is devoted primarily to the plantation life and abolitionism.
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It is well they should emigrate, to show admiring foreigners the beauties of American abolitionism.
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Previous to the war no class of persons were louder in their denunciation of Abolitionism than the clergy of the North.
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The year 1837 is the culmination of the first period of abolitionism in Illinois.
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