Of course our people did not know what the word abolitionist meant; they evidently.    From Wordnik.com.  [The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man,] Reference

The Portent, in 1859, a poem in which he calls the abolitionist John Brown hanging in a tree ".    From Wordnik.com.  [theartblog] Reference

He knew an abolitionist was a person who wanted to end slavery.    From Wordnik.com.  [PIONEER SUMMER] Reference

North is divided into two sections, of which one may be called abolitionist, and the other non-abolitionist.    From Wordnik.com.  [North America] Reference

He was regarded as an "abolitionist" and an incendiary.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools] Reference

We are all one kind of abolitionist or another, no doubt.    From Wordnik.com.  [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference

If he does, the cry of "abolitionist" will soon ring about his ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pictures of Slavery in Church and State; Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc. with an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery] Reference

To the Southern mind it meant a scion of the North, a son of an "abolitionist,".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools] Reference

There followed a widespread hunt for anyone suspected of "abolitionist" sympathizers and.    From Wordnik.com.  [StrategyPage.com] Reference

There followed a widespread hunt for anyone suspected of "abolitionist" sympathizers and "rebellious" slaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [StrategyPage.com] Reference

"Carpet-bagger," which was in some sense the lineal descendant of "abolitionist," was, as was very proper for a second edition.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools] Reference

"abolitionist" having reached that boat, and hence I was not suspected: at least, I thought so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South] Reference

Southern in its sympathies and she being an abolitionist.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

WASSER: Some say that Thomas Day was a secret abolitionist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Day: A Master Craftsman, With Complications] Reference

But in a speech last week, Dean stuck to his abolitionist stance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign 2004: Democrats: Time To Start The Tax-P] Reference

His grandfather was a gun-toting abolitionist who ran with John Brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [WRESTLING WITH ANGELS] Reference

The abolitionist crusade to end slavery belongs to the Second Awakening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Limits Of Materialism] Reference

He owned slaves as a younger man, but in his last years became an abolitionist.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Is Mr. America] Reference

She has nominated the great abolitionist editor and orator, Frederick Douglass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ken Blackwell: Frederick Douglass in Annapolis, Philip Reid in the Capitol] Reference

The minister who preached was as earnest an abolitionist as the doctor, and brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

This Quaker abolitionist knew it would do him good to witness the anticipated scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

The influence of the idealism fostered by the abolitionist crusade should not be overlooked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference

It might interest you to receive the enclosed from a rank abolitionist of the John Brown School.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

Old Garret Smith, the great abolitionist, was in the gallery, at the head of the New York delegation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference

"Then I ask you to define an abolitionist, for I call these men as radical abolitionists as we have in our country.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

(Though he easily concedes that at least one progressive movement — the abolitionist movement — got something right.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrance Heath: Three Questions, Pt 1.: Can We?] Reference

In 1829 you had abolitionist David Walker saying that eventually America will have to deal with its white supremacist slavery.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Hope on a Tightrope’] Reference

The ambition to inspire us to action, to foment what they call a modern abolitionist movement, informs every page of the book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide] Reference

In 1860, the year Abraham Lincoln, who did not run as an abolitionist, barely won the presidency, America had 4 million slaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's Talk About Race] Reference

Celebrate the life of the abolitionist and author with a family-friendly day of music, crafts, games and educational activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Out Guide] Reference

Much as the public executions of another era created strange political divisions, KQED's suit has split the abolitionist movement.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Live, From San Quentin.'] Reference

Male speakers, including the noted abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, were treated with the same disrespect as the women orators.    From Wordnik.com.  ['And Ain't I A Woman?'] Reference

They told their story in the book Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, and donated the proceeds to further the abolitionist cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Dawkins: The Powers and Problems of Passing as a Boy] Reference

Gerrit Smith, the famous abolitionist, was one of those who acted on behalf of the fugitive, and his plea made a strong impression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference

It was not long after this that Lowell began to feel that his work as a writer for the abolitionist cause was narrowing in its effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference