abolitionist has definitions from the field of politics
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[ noun ] (politics) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery

Synonyms

emancipationist

Used in print

(John Michael Ray, "Rhode Island's Reactions...)

During the Brown trial , however , the state 's most powerful Democratic newspaper , the Providence_Daily_Post , stated that Brown was a murderer , a man of blood , and that he and his associates , with the assistance of Republicans and Abolitionists , had plotted not_only the liberation of the slaves but also the overthrow of state and federal_governments .

The Newport_Mercury exhibited more concern over the possibility of the abolitionists making a martyr of Brown than it did over the development of sympathy for him .

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