abolitionist

The exhibit explained that, prior to becoming an abolitionist, he had enslaved people in his household.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Gouverneur agreed to refuse acceptance of abolitionist shipments pending a ruling from Kendall.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist, came eventually to agree with Lincoln.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Other than the Bible, it was the bestselling book in 19th-century America, and it brought the abolitionist movement to mainstream awareness as no politician or orator had done before it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

He was an avid abolitionist, who helped Frederick Douglass escape from federal marshals in 1859.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Influenced by William Goodell, Gerrit Smith, Lysander Spooner and other abolitionists, he began distinguishing the Constitution’s public language from the private intentions of some framers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2025

Tensions between slaveholders and abolitionists kept growing, and by mid-January 1861, five slaveholding states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and Georgia—had seceded from the United States.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling