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Meanings of abolitionist in English
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Examples for "emancipationist"
Examples for "emancipationist"
1
Here crowded politician and planter; lawyers, journalists, and students; conservative and emancipationist.
2
I took him to be an immediate emancipationist, perhaps peculiar in his views.
3
In his earlier years, he had been an outspoken emancipationist, and had always frankly expressed his opinion that slavery was a great evil.
4
General Blair had been the leader of the Missouri emancipationists, but had turned against them.
5
You are deceived by the representations of the emancipationists.
Usage of abolitionist in English
1
Slavery won't last forever, what with all this abolitionist talk going on.
2
His enemies accused him of being a Free-soiler, an abolitionist in disguise.
3
One of the jury declared that he never would acquit an abolitionist.
4
An abolitionist was something to despise, to stone out of the community.
5
At the seminary I met the great-great-great-grandson of the abolitionist Absalom Jones.
6
Being introduced as a zealous abolitionist, the conversation immediately turned upon slavery.
7
Been an abolitionist all his days, and ends by shooting a nigger.
8
She had married a fellow-abolitionist, Stephen Foster, even more unrelenting than she.
9
Took it from an abolitionist, Levi Coffin, who died back in 1877.
10
Does the gentleman from Virginia deny that Thomas Jefferson was an abolitionist?
11
All of a sudden he proclaimed himself an abolitionist-straightout and publicly!
12
After all, even South Carolina had caved to English abolitionist pressure in 1872.
13
Their great reliance consisted in creating the belief that I was an abolitionist.
14
You are specifically an abolitionist, just as you are in general a revolutionist.
15
A Methodist and abolitionist, he nonetheless married into a slaveholding family from Missouri.
16
His work was noticed by Samuel May, a notable Boston abolitionist.
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