English > abolitionist: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A reformer who favors / favors abolishing slavery. |
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| Synonym | emancipationist |
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| Instances | Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher | United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887) |
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| Brown, John Brown | abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859) |
| Douglass, Frederick Douglass | United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895) |
| Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison | United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879) |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe | United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896) |
| Tappan, Arthur Tappan | United States abolitionist (1786-1865) |
| Truth, Sojourner Truth | United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883) |
| Tubman, Harriet Tubman | United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913) |
| Weld, Theodore Dwight Weld | United States abolitionist (1803-1895) |
| Broader | reformer, reformist, crusader, social reformer, meliorist | A disputant who advocates reform |
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| Spanish | abolicionista, emancipador |
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| Catalan | abolicionista |
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| Nouns | abolitionism | the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery |
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