Definitionn. the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery
Last update: October 28, 2015
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He at once began to take an independent part in the movements then agitating NewEngland, which between 1830 and 1850 was stirred by discussions pertaining to Unitarianism, transcendentalism, spiritualism, abolitionism and various schemes for communistic living. [noun]
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The latter had grown to depend upon him for even his political beliefs, and lightly followed his partner into Abolitionism; though that was to risk unpopularity, bitter hatred, and worse. [Please select]
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Had the crisis been postponed, there surely would have been a revival of abolitionism within the Southern States. [Please select]
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"We have one here in Marksville, an eccentric creature, who preaches abolitionism as vehemently as any fanatic at the North." [noun]
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That Garrison greatly injured abolitionism by causing it to be associated in men's minds with these unpopular views on other subjects. [Please select]
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Then, too, you're more or less the town model of virtue and popular hero, in spite of the Abolitionism, just as I am the town scamp.' [Please select]
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Visiting the Hall, he had drunk in the poison, or consecration, as was the point of view, of abolitionism. [Please select]
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As anticipated, it nearly proved the ruin of its projector; but by extraordinary exertions it was kept alive, not, however, on the platform of Garrisonian abolitionism. [Please select]
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