A reformer who favors abolishing slavery

Usage examples of abolitionist.

President, you here find several distinct propositions advanced boldly by the Washington Union editorially, and apparently authoritatively, and every man who questions any of them is denounced as an Abolitionist, a Free-soiler, a fanatic.

Based, as has been shown, upon sectional rivalry and opposition to the growth of the Southern equally with the Northern States of the Union, it had absorbed within itself not only the abolitionists, who were avowedly agitating for the destruction of the system of negro servitude, but other diverse and heterogeneous elements of opposition to the Democratic party.

If there was one thing a bushwhacker hated more than an abolitionist, it was an abolitionist with a congregation.

She was tempted to recount the wheedling she had to employ on visits to New York and Philadelphia, scratching up writing assignments from railroaders, supplemented by loans from abolitionists sympathetic with the cause of keeping a score of black girls from the life the slavers had in store.

He was a Free Soiler and an Abolitionist, liberally contributing to the Sanitary Commission, and to all agencies for the benefit of the soldiers and the successful prosecution of the war.

He buckled to the pressure those abolitionist bastards like Dana and their Chicago cousins like Joe Medill put on him.

Frankly, I find it hard to see how a state can be both pro-slavery and antisecession, as persnickety Kentucky seems to be, but the Ancient is willing to take the most egregious abuse from the abolitionist Jacobins among the Republicans rather than offend the peace Democrats who still profess to be loyal.

And then it is only fair to believe that Hawthorne was interested in the experiment, and that though he was not a Transcendentalist, an Abolitionist, or a Fourierite, as his companions were in some degree or other likely to be, he was willing, as a generous and unoccupied young man, to lend a hand in any reasonable scheme for helping people to live together on better terms than the common.

Long an opponent of abolitionists, Pierce had sponsored the gag rule restricting the presentation of antislavery petitions to Congress.

On both sides the cause was broader and deeper than negro slavery, and neither the proslavery men nor the abolitionists have won.

In Philadelphia, the center of abolitionist societies, proslavery rioters go on a rampage and destroy forty houses belonging to blacks.

In Boston, a proslavery mob disrupts an address by English abolitionist George Thompson.

Abolitionist publisher Elijah Lovejoy, whose presses have twice been destroyed by proslavery rioters, is murdered by a mob in Alton, Illinois.

Ferry, Virginia, by John Brown and his handful of Northern Abolitionist followers, and his subsequent execution in Virginia, calculated to allay the rapidly intensifying feeling between the Freedom-loving North and the Slaveholding South.

In the past election, the Massachusetts Democrat had been a Breckinridge man, and the abolitionists in Boston were angry at Butler for supporting the candidate the slavocrats preferred.