abolitionist
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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
He concludes his account with the most radical abolitionist of all, John Brown, who had little patience for the inhibitions of the Bostonians.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
“Power concedes nothing without a demand,” she told a crowd gathered in Sproul Plaza on that October Thursday in 1964, quoting abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2025
Beshear’s refusal was enormously significant in forestalling a real step backward for the abolitionist movement.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2025
Royal had read of the man’s exploits in the newspaper—lawyer, abolitionist crusader, bane of slavers and those who did their dirty work.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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