Antislavery in a sentence

Trumbull was an antislavery Democrat, and had received few votes in the earlier ballots; his supporters, also antislavery Democrats, had vowed not to support any Whig.

But, from then until 1823, the antislavery campaign train seemed to have run out of steam.

Lawmakers and federal agencies in the United States lack the political will to apply existing antislavery and product-tracking laws that could help.

He developed it into the most influential black antislavery newspaper published during the Antebellum era.

She was also a philanthropist, raising significant sums for the Colored Orphan Aslyum, and she was an activist, counting as friends the antislavery John Brown and Frederick Douglass.

After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement from Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory citation and incisive antislavery writings.

As a result of these expeditions, local rulers were compelled to obey existing antislavery laws, supply porters and food to the French forces, and ensure the protection of French trade and personnel.

Campbell, joined by other antislavery northerners, exchanged insults and invectives with southerners, neither side giving quarter.

Further, with time, even leading antislavery Republicans would become less adamant and more willing to reconcile with the South than protect the rights of the newly freed.

He allegedly was influenced by antislavery Quakers and Methodists at the school.

In 1934, Douglas S. Freeman described them as "Lee's first experience with the extravagance of irresponsible antislavery agitators" and asserted that "There is no evidence, direct or indirect, that Lee ever had them or any other Negroes flogged.

Interest in transforming the world was applied to mainstream political action, as temperance activists, antislavery advocates, and proponents of other variations of reform sought to implement their beliefs into national politics.

In the House, antislavery Whigs led by John Quincy Adams voted against the war; among Democrats, Senator John C. Calhoun was the most notable opponent of the declaration.

Larson, p. 163. The city was a hotbed of antislavery activism, and Tubman seized the opportunity to deliver her parents from the harsh Canadian winters.

There was increasing evidence to refute phrenological claims, and by the 1840s it had largely lost its credibility.sfn In the United States, especially in the South, phrenology faced an additional obstacle in the antislavery movement.