Abolitionists in a sentence

And abolitionists strongly believe in prosecuting women who have abortions.

Nine days later, they arrived in Farmington where abolitionists provided housing, schooling and the fundraising necessary for the Mende passage back to their homeland.

Progressive abolitionists insist that county government cannot be trusted to overuse jail.

So the family unit becomes something that’s really, really important in terms of a lot of the same things that abolitionists are talking about.

Unquestionably, the planters intended to undercut the bargaining power of the freed slaves – but the new 19th Century indentured was not the “free labour” the abolitionists had promised.

And he talks of the growing movement of “ultras”, militant abolitionists who believed in “uncompromising direct action” to end slavery.

In an extraordinary bold move for the times, a group of Black and White abolitionists invade a Boston courtroom and forcibly free a fugitive slave before he could be sent back to the South. was hidden from slave-catchers and he later fled to Canada.

Sites were selected based on their focus on Ohio’s Underground Railroad sites or direct relation to either the Underground Railroad or known abolitionists in Ohio.

The Black Panthers did not speak the language of abolition the way prison and police abolitionists speak it today.

Abolitionists argue the money is better spent on housing, health, and community programs, including models of restorative justice, which aims to heal the harm caused by crime, not punish those who cause it.

At the same time, the political earthquake of the Great Reform Act in 1832 returned, for the first time, a parliament full of avowed abolitionists.

Benjamin Franklin, also a slaveholder for much of his life, became a leading member of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, the first recognized organization for abolitionists in the United States.

Having grasped the fact that slavery is nothing less than kidnapping and theft committed against the enslaved, abolitionists long advocated for some form of redress for freed slaves.

They argue not against Lincoln but the statue’s depiction of a freed slave, which they described as the result of toxic view held by slaveholders and even abolitionists.

While my kiddo still hates “the British,” he also knows about the British abolitionists who helped former slave, activist and author Frederick Douglass fight for an end to slavery in the 1800s.

Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) escaped to be become one of the most heroic and effective activists and abolitionists leading up to the American Civil War and after.

Her conversion to activism would in time make her one of the country’s best-known death penalty abolitionists, and maybe its most famous nun.

It was first introduced in 1751 but didn’t become a symbol of liberty until the 1830s, when abolitionists used its inscription as a mantra of sorts.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818 and, once he had escaped, became one of that century's most prominent abolitionists.

Most abolitionists worried about the brutalising effect of slavery on the whites who practised it.