abolitionist
Example Sentences
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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
Stanton enjoyed what appears to have been a happy marriage to Henry, an abolitionist attorney and journalist who was 10 years her senior.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
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 • Jan. 22, 2026
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 The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
After graduation, she became a paid lecturer in the abolitionist movement.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
