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abolitionism

noun

ab·​o·​li·​tion·​ism ˌa-bə-ˈli-shə-ˌni-zəm How to pronounce abolitionism (audio)
: principles or measures promoting the abolition especially of slavery
among the New Englanders committed to abolitionism

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web 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 On New Year’s Day 1831, a youthful New England newspaperman with a political bent launched his latest venture in social reform, promising a new era in American abolitionism. Marc M. Arkin, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022 Surely, abolitionism had a moral force greater than the sum of its flawed parts. Marc M. Arkin, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022 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 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 History vindicated Douglass’s decision to throw his energies behind political abolitionism. Marc M. Arkin, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022 Thanksgiving was rejected by the South as a form of crypto-abolitionism because of its association with New England, and specifically with New England Protestants. Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 25 Nov. 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 See More

Word History

Etymology

abolition + -ism

First Known Use

1807, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of abolitionism was in 1807

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