abolitionist

A firsthand account by an escaped slave who became a famous abolitionist and orator, this memoir reframed slavery as coerced labor.

William Lloyd Garrison had been both an abolitionist and a pacifist.

It was an act of considerable courage in an era when abolitionist speakers were frequently stoned, beaten and sometimes murdered for their beliefs.

Which is why, despite my love of berries for birds and nectar for butterflies, I’m not a total turf abolitionist.

Lincoln was addressing a fractured North, not abolitionists, and he knew that striking too soon at slavery might drive the wavering border states into Confederate arms—a shift that could doom the Union cause.