abolitionist

That was the abolitionist movement, which opposed slavery. Abolitionists did not like Clay, because he owned slaves.

Still, Clay was a national leader. He knew it would be bad to stand too strongly opposed to the growing abolitionist movement.

Plymouth was the home of the great abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher and a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Such was the general political and economic picture in the United States when the abolitionist movement began to make itself felt.

I never dreamed that he would be an Abolitionist.

Pinkerton was an abolitionist (activist against slavery).

In 1859, John Brown, an abolitionist, (someone who wanted to see slavery abolished), led a raid on the town.

The first international social movement was the abolitionist campaign to do away with slavery and the slave trade.

Frederick Douglass became one of the most important leaders of the abolitionist movement to end slavery in the United States.

Backlash against the law helped fuel the abolitionist movement and increased participation on the Underground Railroad.

"Darwin's starting point, " they write, "was the abolitionist belief in blood kinship, a 'common descent' " of all human beings.

The great abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass once told us, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. "

William was a parliamentary opponent of William Wilberforce, a leading abolitionist.

The gag rule made great numbers of people in the North very angry. Because of it, these people began to support the abolitionist movement.

He failed, and any successor who wants to arrest the abolitionist trend is likely also to be frustrated.

Butler was no abolitionist, but the three slaves presented a problem.

Born in Maine, there is a strong abolitionist childhood thinking that everyone is equal before God.

After escaping slavery, Truth embraced evangelical religion and became involved in moral reform and abolitionist work.

Uncle Tom's Cabin, written during the abolitionist era, addresses the horrors of slavery as no contemporary book can.

Abolitionist Lydia Child (1802-1880), who greatly influenced Margaret Fuller, was a leader of this network.

His death deeply affected many Northerners and greatly strengthened the abolitionist (anti-slavery) cause.

In 1851, Stanton started working with Susan B. Anthony, a well-known abolitionist. The two women made a great team.

The new justice minister, for one, is an abolitionist and has signed no death warrants.

Before too long, both may fall into the abolitionist camp.

But the abolitionist trend seems inexorable.

in 1859 , abolitionist john brown led a group of about 20 men in a raid on harper ' s ferry.