abolitionist
Example Sentences
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What about critics who say the self-described police abolitionist should work closer with law enforcement to clean up the park, I told her.
From Los Angeles Times
“Nobody reads them anymore, not since that abolitionist Abe Lincoln lost the Senate contest.”
From Literature
Introverted, romantic and intellectual, she read everything from Walter Scott and Jane Austen to abolitionist tracts and records of Senate debates.
KCK also became a major stop on the underground railroad, escaped slaves gaining freedom the instant they crossed the river into Kansas, an abolitionist state.
During the abolitionist movement and the war itself, the North Star became a practical element of enslaved African-Americans’ looking to the heavens, a beacon of freedom and hope.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
