abolitionist
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Even the abolitionist Death Penalty Information Center concedes that “there is no way to tell how many of the … people executed since 1976 may … have been innocent.”
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
The relief depicts an actual event: Shaw, scion of a prominent abolitionist family, is on horseback leading one of the conflict’s first black regiments off to the front.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
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
He conveys the grief and terror felt by abolitionists in the founding generation, who predicted catastrophe, and the abhorrence of the institution among such men as Adams, who believed in emancipation by gradual means.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Unlike Northern abolitionists, who opposed slavery purely on moral or religious grounds, Clay focused on the effect that slavery had on white working men, who were forced into a losing competition with slaves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
The bill’s stalling is a sign that abolitionists may seem to be on the back foot.
From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2025
These pamphlets were widely read by abolitionists in the North, but they were confiscated and burned in the South.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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