How to Use abolitionist in a Sentence

abolitionist

1 of 2 noun
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  • And at the end of his life, this man who had slaves becomes an abolitionist.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2022
  • In 1857, the court ruled against Scott, angering abolitionists and helping to set the stage for the Civil War.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The owners were part of the abolitionist movement, and the inn was most likely used as a stopover for the Underground Railroad.
    — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2022
  • The abolitionist Sojourner Truth had once been enslaved by a church in the diocese.
    — NBC News, 3 Apr. 2022
  • This project aims to reframe the narrative, to amplify the names and efforts of those who lived it and steer away from the lens of white abolitionists.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
  • To start things off, viewers can watch the biopic Harriet, which tells the story of the historic abolitionist.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The Mint has also promised to put abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, though the process has faced delays.
    — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Heg was an abolitionist and Union Army colonel during the Civil War.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Eliza is a right-minded progressive who was active in the abolitionist movement in the 1830s.
    — Adam Kirsch, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The fasces became a symbol of the abolitionist movement, much to the annoyance of some Southerners.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
  • And abolitionists, both Black and white helped finance her schooling.
    — Dominique Janee, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
  • An abolitionist 2050 can feel impossible from the vantage of the present.
    — Victor Ray, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • This was the work that Still did, day in and day out, but his position at the center of this vast abolitionist network also involved him in some of the most dramatic events of the era.
    — Andrew Diemer, Time, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Walk through the forested trails of Woodlawn, or visit the 1732 Court House (where abolitionists stood trial for standing up for their beliefs).
    — Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The park and the surrounding neighborhood will be renamed Tubman Square in honor of the abolitionist.
    — Carly Olson, ELLE Decor, 13 June 2022
  • Sojourner Truth is an icon for her work as both an abolitionist and a feminist.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Her biography of abolitionist Lydia Maria Child will be published in the fall.
    — Lydia Moland, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • What Lincoln was able to do was to manage martial abolitionist opinion.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2023
  • John Brown Gun Club was founded in the spirit of the 18th-century firebrand and Torrington native, a white man who went to his death defending the abolitionist cause.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2022
  • The house was built as a family home by Seth P. Warner, one of Chicago’s earliest settlers, who was a blacksmith, abolitionist and patron of the arts.
    — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2023
  • In this interview with the Intercept, Mariame Kaba speaks about the role hope plays in building a long-term abolitionist movement.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • After a few close calls during their escape, Lisbon was leery of Ottawa abolitionist John Hossack, who offered to feed and house them.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The school is named for Maria Weston Chapman, a local woman who was an educator and abolitionist in the 1800s.
    — Johanna Seltz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2022
  • School benefactor Johns Hopkins, the physician long touted as an abolitionist, was revealed in a 2020 report to have been a slave owner.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 28 Apr. 2022
  • His father Jesse was an abolitionist but at West Point, Grant was friends with slave-owning families and married into one.
    — Erin Glynn, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Though Boston had a prominent abolitionist community in the 19th century, the city was still a player in the transatlantic slave trade.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022
  • Alongside his abolitionist work, Still pushed for the rights of Black people—not just freedom from slavery but the full rights of American citizenship.
    — Andrew Diemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Most of the enslaved people were recaptured, and Meachum and her fellow abolitionists were arrested.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Former governor and abolitionist William Eustis then owned the land in the early 19th century.
    — Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Both have long been aligned and celebrated in the Black communities for their efforts as abolitionists.
    — Terri Huggins Hart, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
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abolitionist

2 of 2 adjective
  • That is the optimism at the heart of the abolitionist project.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 7 May 2021
  • In its early years, the school was a center of the abolitionist movement.
    — Freep.com, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Religion played a large role in both Tubman's life and the abolitionist movement as a whole.
    — Henry J. Morgan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
  • The abolitionist movements that erupted in 2020 are the movements that are dead set on ending fascism once and for all.
    — Vinson Cunningham, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The abolitionist position forces us to reimagine what the world would look like without jails or prisons.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Quinn churchgoers and leaders were known for being involved in the abolitionist movement in the mid-1800s.
    — Zahria Rogers, The Courier-Journal, 15 June 2018
  • Join me on this journey of telling abolitionist stories.
    — Patrisse Cullors, Variety, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Angela supported the abolitionist movement as well, and held a series of odd jobs.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • The history of Luiz Gama, the most important abolitionist leader in Brazil.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 26 Aug. 2021
  • There had been a slave market on Wall Street, abolitionist newspapers where Tribeca is, villages for free blacks in Brooklyn.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2015
  • Just 161 of her letters exist today, Looser said, but one of them mentions her love of the work of Thomas Clarkson, an abolitionist author.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 June 2021
  • In one case, a District streetcar conductor tried to drag the renowned abolitionist Sojourner Truth off his car.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
  • At the Rise Up concert, Ballard explained to the audience that the abolitionist movement of the 19th century had been driven by people just like them.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
  • In the North, abolitionist newspapers like the Liberty Almanac pointed to the fact that the North had far more students, scholars, libraries, and colleges.
    — Eli Cook, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The chapter neglects to offer any details about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the abolitionist movement or the plantation system.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 14 Mar. 2018
  • In the upcoming biopic Harriet, Erivo, 32, stars as Tubman in the story of her early years of abolitionist work.
    — Justin Curto, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2019
  • These states in the middle – caught on the line that separated slave states from free before the Civil War – were not staunchly abolitionist, like some of their more northern neighbors.
    — Hannah Sparling, Cincinnati.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • His urgings of insurrection before the war had frightened the mainstream of the abolitionist movement.
    — Paul Ortiz, Time, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Douglass, who was born into slavery on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1818, escaped as a young man and became a leading voice in the abolitionist movement.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2018
  • State legislatures can no longer use Roe as an excuse to avoid abolitionist proposals, Mr. Durbin said on his livestream.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2022
  • The Freedom Neighborhood has been focused on educating the people about what an abolitionist society could look like that serves not just some of us, but all of us.
    — Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Currently, his face adorns the $20 bill, although efforts are underway to move his image to the back of the bill, with abolitionist Harriet Tubman replacing him on the front.
    — NOLA.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Yet this wasn’t a traditional lecture about the famed abolitionist, Civil War nurse, union spy, and suffragist.
    — Donna Owens, Essence.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • More than six hundred thousand people voted for the winner: Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist, nurse, scout, and spy for the northern states during the Civil War.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 18 June 2019
  • One of the most compelling examples of the use of free speech on behalf of the greater good is that of Frederick Douglass, an ex-slave whose writings and oratory helped inspire the abolitionist movement.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • For a dozen years, the two existed in an uneasy relationship, as Douglass strove to make his own mark in abolitionist circles while Garrison tried to keep him in the New England fold.
    — Marc M. Arkin, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022
  • In May 1779, Liss escaped with the help of an abolitionist British colonel, but she was subsequently enslaved again in the city by an unknown individual.
    — Bill Bleyer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Henson’s book garnered attention at the abolitionist reading room in Boston as well as in like-minded households throughout the North.
    — Jared Brock, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
  • These papers were essential to promoting the abolitionist cause, allowing free blacks to tell their own stories and to spread the stories of people still living in slavery.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Charles Langston would go on to become very influential in Black and abolitionist politics.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2022

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