abolitionist

The bill became the second abolitionist proposal to pass through a committee this spring before time ran out to pass it this session.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

Nearby, is a large poster, with text penned by famed slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglass, that was carried in a 1863 parade during the Civil War that calls "Men of Color, To Arms! To Arms!"

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Some prosecutors aren’t waiting for the passage of abolitionist laws.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

His mother, who introduced him at age 5 to Walden Pond, was an abolitionist who ran a station on the Underground Railroad, for which he would act as a conductor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

More than fifty years had passed since blacks around the country joined John Jones and his abolitionist friends in celebrating the end of slavery.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

The book that I’ve written with my colleague Daphna Renan, Supremacy, goes through the history of the court’s power—as well as what people thought of it—from abolitionists through the Civil Rights Movement to the present.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

The abolitionists also assert that women should be punished not for abortion but for homicide.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

British abolitionists campaigned against Britain’s participation in the international slave trade during the years that followed the Zorg’s insurance trial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025

Known as prison abolitionists, these groups want to see as many prisons close as possible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2025

Many were college-educated and the descendants of Quakers, abolitionists, and other social reformers.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling