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n. Advocacy of the abolition of slavery.

n. The principles or measures of abolitionists.

n. Belief in the principle of abolition, as of slavery; devotion to or advocacy of the opinions of abolitionists.

n. the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery

"The northern counties had at once become strongly Anti-Nebraska; the conservative Whig counties of the center inclined to the Know-Nothings; while the Kentuckians and Carolinians, who had settled the southern end, had strong antipathies to what they called abolitionism, and applauded Douglas and repeal."

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