What is a abolitionist?

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Defintion of abolitionist

Answer 1

someone who worked to end slavery.

dictionary:
(esp. prior to the Civil War) a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.

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Answer 2

An abolitionist was a person who lived in the 1800s in the United States and was concerned with overturning, or abolishing the institution of legal slavery. Many of these people were against owning slaves because of religious reasons. Many people who owned slaves found justification for the practice in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. Many who opposed slavery did so because they believed that people who were forced to live in small houses and had no money to fix them the way they wanted were living an intolerable existence. At the time, some who owned slaves provided adequate living conditions for the slaves they owned and their families while other slaves lived in almost animal conditions. What everyone, both slave-owners and abolitionists alike, could agree on though is that slaves were not free. As a nation, we were forced to confront that fact and none of us felt good about that realization. There were hundreds of thousands of Americans in our country who were not free. Our nation did something about that when the Civil War was fought and the Emancipation Proclamation freed most of the slaves in America.

Answer 3

An abolitionist is antislavery but to be antislavery does not mean you were an abolitionist. The difference is antislavery means to be against slavery and abolitionist took it a step further. They had a do anything necessary attitude. John Brown was an abolitionist. He tried to assemble his own army to raid the south and march from county to county freeing slaves.

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Someone who wanted to free the slaves so they could become cheap labor up North. Just like the phony, touchy-feely multiculturalists of today, these agents of sweatshops put on a moralistic costume to cover up their economic tyranny. Out of the 35 leading abolitionists, only one went on to support the labor movement. If they had been sincere, they all would have supported it, so that proves that they were right-wing all the time. They were Republicans, so that party of economic bullies hasn't changed.

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A person who strives/ed to abolish slavery.

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an advicate for the abolition of slavery

Answer 8

ab·o·li·tion (ăb'ə-lĭsh'ən)
n.
The act of doing away with or the state of being done away with; annulment.
Abolishment of slavery.