abolitionist
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concept
An abolitionist is a person who actively opposes and works to end systems of slavery, oppression, or unjust incarceration, often through advocacy, organizing, and political action.
Aliases (5)
- Radical Republican ×6
- prison reformer ×3
- African American abolitionist ×1
- American abolitionist ×1
- British abolitionist ×1
Instances (61)
- Julia Ward Howe
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Stowe
- William Wilberforce
- Louisa May Alcott
- Oliver Otis Howard
- Josiah Wedgwood I
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Edward Beecher
- Henry David Thoreau
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Thomas Fowell Buxton
- Thaddeus Stevens
- Jacobs
- John Quincy Adams
- Toussaint Louverture
- Charles Sumner
- Wendell Phillips
- Thomas Day
- Sydney Howard Gay
- Harriet Jacobs
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Louisa Matilda Jacobs
- Henry Brougham
- Jervis Langdon
- Allan Pinkerton
- Benjamin F. Butler ("Radical Republican")
- Salmon P. Chase
- Theodore Parker
- Dix ("prison reformer")
- Zachariah Chandler ("Radical Republican")
- Horace Greeley
- Horace Mann
- John Bingham ("Radical Republican")
- Samuel Gridley Howe
- Toussaint Bréda
- Olivia Langdon Clemens
- Anna
- John Newton
- Hannah More
- Thomas Clarkson
- Granville Sharp
- John Howard ("prison reformer")
- Joseph Sturge
- Helen Pitts Douglass
- Pedro II of Brazil
- Garrison
- Henry Wilson
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Anna Murray Douglass
- Lucretia Mott
- Frederick Douglass
- Benjamin Wade ("Radical Republican")
- Maria White Lowell
- Elizabeth Fry ("prison reformer")
- Abigail May Alcott