How to Use abolitionism in a Sentence

abolitionism

noun

• Surely, abolitionism had a moral force greater than the sum of its flawed parts.
  — Marc M. Arkin, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022
• The free speech skeptics might want to read up on the history of abolitionism.
  — Russell Jacoby, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• The district was a hot spot of abolitionism and the fledgling women-rights movement.
  — Melanie Kirkpatrick, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
• This led them toward both women’s rights and the risky work of anti-slavery and abolitionism.
  — Marjoleine Kars, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
• Such images join a wealth of prints and ephemera from the leader, who escaped slavery in 1838 and spent his life devoted to abolitionism.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2023
• Nevertheless, Key took this as his chance to make an example of abolitionism once and for all.
  — Bennett Parten, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2021
• Pennsylvania Hall was newly built in 1838 with public funds and was meant to be a national center for abolitionism and equal rights.
  — Christy Clark-Pujara and Anna-Lisa Cox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Aug. 2020
• Finkelman, an expert on American slavery, said New York played a key role in abolishing slavery on a state level long before the 1830s, at the height of abolitionism.
  — Giselle Rhoden, CNN, 27 Feb. 2022
• In the early 19th century, the suffrage movement had been entwined with abolitionism.
  — Laura Mallonee, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
• Even New England, hotbed of abolitionism and birthplace of this magazine, got rich on textiles spun in the factories along the Merrimack.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017
• The Evans brothers participated in what became known as the 1858 Oberlin-Wellington-Rescue -- a key event in the history of abolitionism.
  — Bianca Ramsey, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2021
• Rooms in the main house feature various aspects of the family members’ lives, with one section devoted to abolitionism, Ms. Brooks said.
  — Carolyn Shapiro, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2020
• And in the State, abolitionism still lives in its full activity, as Jacobinism; a fell spirit which is the destroyer of every hope of just government and Christian order.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 15 June 2018
• Along the way, Boyd introduces us to some of Detroit’s key social movements: abolitionism, union organizing, civil rights and black power.
  — Thomas J. Sugrue, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• How did the women's suffrage movement move from being very closely tied to abolitionism to largely excluding women of color?
  — Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2020
• Cullors also includes personal anecdotes and the lessons she's learned from her time as an educator and activist, as well as a brief history of abolitionism.
  — Morgan Smith, PEOPLE.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• The contours of this shift are discernible in the rise of ardent moral reforms with wider geographic range, such as abolitionism, the defense of the Cherokees, and women’s participation in the petitioning of Congress.
  — Mark Greif, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2021
• Sumner was the rare northerner who combined an anti-slavery stance with abolitionism and an absolute conviction in equal rights.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 10 Feb. 2017
• Sumner was the rare northerner who combined an anti-slavery stance with abolitionism and an absolute conviction in equal rights.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 10 Feb. 2017
• Black churches were spaces where slave abolitionism was envisioned, and insurrections were planned.
  — Jason Oliver Evans, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2023
• As Sinha writes, Brooks later said that attacking Sumner with a cane, rather than challenging him to a duel, was an attempt to humiliate Sumner for his abolitionism by treating him like a slave.
  — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 26 May 2017
• Public education and abolitionism, for example, were the result of women whose names are, ironically, not often found in textbooks.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
• Emerson was writing amid a crisis of liberal democracy, when the fervor of abolitionism was starting to show its cracks and the politics of protest were being co-opted into mere symbolism and more self-interested agendas.
  — Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 11 June 2021
• Although Cincinnati was a stronghold of abolitionism, and Duncanson found great success painting for a white patronage, racial animosity intensified as the decade wore on.
  — John Wilmerding, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• Robert Dale Owen became a politician and advocated for universal education, women’s suffrage, and abolitionism at the state level.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 5 Aug. 2019
• While New England’s image has been linked in popular culture to abolitionism, the report said, wealthy plantation owners and Harvard were mutually dependent.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
• During his stay on Lispenard St., Douglass also absorbed Ruggles’ passion and erudition, receiving a crash course in radical abolitionism.
  — Graham Hodges, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2020
• Anthony's abolitionism was much deeper and more consistent.
  — Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2020
• Here Reynolds leans partly on his cultural interpretations, citing a transcendent search for harmony and order on Lincoln’s part that precluded abolitionism.
  — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• Racial equality, women's suffrage and abolitionism are political views, too.
  — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 14 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024