Example sentences for: abolitionist

How can you use “abolitionist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After writing a polemical 1996 essay attacking Huckleberry Finn as immoral, Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley sets out to improve on Twain with a novel about an abolitionist woman in antebellum Kansas Territory.

  • The abolitionist movement began on the heels of the Second Great Awakening of the first three decades of the century.

  • Praise for The Sweet Hereafter writer Russell Banks' first historical novel, about the abolitionist zealot John Brown.

  • This deeper meaning lay, embedded in the text, ready to come alive for the first time as their Declaration became the sacred text of the American abolitionist movement.

  • The piece likens Kaczynski to abolitionist John Brown, who was tried and hanged after he resisted efforts to classify him as insane.


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