abolitionism

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Writes Mr. Kurlansky: “Brown, the onetime pariah of abolitionism, was becoming its leading symbol.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

They cherished the freedom their newly adopted country afforded them and saw the radical movement known as abolitionism as a threat to national unity.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2025

Kenneth, who is the great-great-great-grandson of Frederick Douglass, added "We taught the students today that Frederick wasn't much older than they are now when he started his career in abolitionism and activism."

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2024

It’s the same impulse that supported 19th century abolitionism and reconstruction after the Civil War.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2023

The indifference of the ministers to abolitionism, before 1854, was partly due, however, to their almost universal opposition to a kindred reform, which they might easily have helped.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May