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Abolitionist

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the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A person who favors the abolition of some law, institution, or custom.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a reformer who favors abolishing slavery

Word Usage

"The main abolitionist organization in the U.S. was the The American Missionary Association, indenominational Christian but growing out of the evangelical movement."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

crusader reformer social reformer reformist meliorist

Hyponym

john brown tappan weld harriet tubman Tubman Stowe theodore dwight weld harriet elizabeth beecher stowe william lloyd garrison harriet beecher stowe

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Whig reformer patriot nationalist upholder agitator democrat supporter biographer philanthropist