Example sentences for: abolitionist

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

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

  • 4) Amistad and Echo of Lions contain the same fictional character--a wealthy, erudite black man involved with the printing of abolitionist literature.

  • Many of the preachers of the Awakening supported the abolitionist cause but many others did not.

  • Up through the Civil War, only two states, Pennsylvania in 1780 and Massachusetts in 1843--hotbeds of abolitionist activity--repealed their bans.

  • 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.


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