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
She was the boon companion of the women’s-rights activist Susan B. Anthony, and she could count among friends and allies the abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
That October, militant abolitionist John Brown attempted to seize guns and start a revolt of enslaved people to destroy American slavery.
From Literature
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
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