The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antislavery \An`ti*slav"er*y\, a. Opposed to slavery. -- n. Opposition to slavery.
Wiktionary
a. opposed to the practice of slavery.
Usage examples of "antislavery".
Declaration and surgeon general of the Continental Army, started one of the first antislavery associations.
On Independence Day, a mob breaks up an antislavery meeting in New York City because blacks and whites are mingling.
The gag rule is temporarily lifted, allowing northern congressmen to present an antislavery petition.
Pennsylvania Hall, the site of antislavery meetings, is burned to the ground.
This is one of a growing number of incidents in which the rights of runaways are defended by antislavery forces in the northern states.
Calhoun and submitted to the Senate by President Tyler, is rejected, because antislavery forces convince a majority that admitting a slave state will simply lead to another North-South confrontation.
Quincy Adams successfully urges the House to revoke the gag rule that prohibits discussion of antislavery petitions.
In Buffalo, an antislavery coalition forms the Free-Soil party and nominates former President Martin Van Buren.
By the terms of the third measure, the territory east of California won from Mexico was divided into the territories of New Mexico and Utah, and they were opened to settlement by both slaveholders and antislavery settlers.
The book instantly galvanized antislavery sentiments and once more hardened the lines between free and slave.
Long an opponent of abolitionists, Pierce had sponsored the gag rule restricting the presentation of antislavery petitions to Congress.
Boston, an antislavery mob attempts to rescue fugitive slave Anthony Burns from jail.
The Free-Soil party came together in 1848, absorbing what was left of the Liberty party, the first antislavery political party.
Ripon, Wisconsin, in February 1854, a diverse coalition of antislavery politicians, former members of the Whig, Free-Soil, and Know-Nothing parties along with disaffected northern Democrats, organized a new party opposed to the further extension of slavery.
With a base of western farmers and northern businessmen, the Republicans drew antislavery forces from the other splinter parties, growing rapidly in size and influence.