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Meanings of opposition to slavery in English
Movement to end slavery.
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Examples for "abolitionism"
Examples for "abolitionism"
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Non-coercion would avert civil war, and compromise crush out both abolitionism and secession.
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It is idle to talk of sectionalism, abolitionism, and hostility to the laws.
3
The dream panorama is not a literal discussion of abolitionism or states' rights.
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Disinterested benevolence, my dear sir, has nothing at all to do with abolitionism.
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Nor did the public men of the North escape the ordeal of ardent abolitionism.
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British rule was established in 1861 to enforce the abolition of the slave trade.
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The abolition of the slave trade in 1808 meant that slaves could no longer be imported.
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This was the abolition of the slave trade.
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King George III opposed the abolition of the slave trade, oh and he also bought Buckingham Palace.
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A total abolition of the slave trade.
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Serageldin likened the 21st century struggle to combat poverty to the 19th-century slavery abolition movement.
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To confuse matters more, he also opposed the abolitionist movement, calling its members extremists.
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Ironically, the abolitionist movement was also divided by racial prejudice.
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The images would be reproduced and circulated around the nation, further fuelling the abolitionist movement.
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Gradually the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad won the support of ever-increasing numbers of white Northerners.
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Historically, the church has served as a political center for Black Americans since as early as the abolitionist movement.
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The First Wave (Approximately 1840-1920) The First Wave grew out of the movement to abolish slavery.
Usage of opposition to slavery in English
1
He had gone far enough in his opposition to slavery; but not too far.
2
The delegates of all political persuasions united on the one principle of opposition to slavery.
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Mill's political career was distinguished by firm opposition to slavery and by advocacy of the rights of women.
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Some of this commentary has been conventionally laudatory, citing Lincoln's humble beginnings, his opposition to slavery, his honesty and idealism.
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His opposition to slavery meant he went further in the hard hitting Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs Oswald of Auchencruive.
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Other instances in which this nefarious "social justice" has been invoked through the years have included opposition to slavery and segregation.
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The occasion and the subject are used with rather disagreeable subtlety to insinuate opposition to slavery into the minds of a cautious audience.
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Nothing is more absurd than to complain of this sympathy, or to complain of a party of men united in opposition to slavery.
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I made a prediction only-itmay have been a foolish one perhaps. Lincoln became quite personal in explaining his lifelong opposition to slavery.
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Its principles were resistance to slavery extension, and opposition to slavery so far as was practicable under the Constitution,-theprinciples later of the Republican party.
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Opposition to slavery was not a creed of either political party.
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Opposition to slavery was, at last, respectable in politics.
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Concerning her opposition to Slavery, she is not as outspoken, even though her feelings run deeper.
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The Antiquity of Anti-slavery Sentiment.-BenjaminLundy's Opposition to Slavery in the South and at the North.-Heestablishes the Genius of Universal Emancipation.
Translations for opposition to slavery