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  • The long fight for abolition finally achieved its goal in the 19th century.
    abolition = ending slavery
  • "Henry Ward Beecher was, of course, the nineteenth-century abolitionist—and fiery sermonizer for human rights—after whom this school was named," Mr. Tushman was saying when I started paying attention again.  (source)
    abolitionist = a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
  • The abolition of the Vatican is nonnegotiable.  (source)
    abolition = elimination of the institution
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  • They also fought for the abolition of slavery and for a more humane treatment of criminals.  (source)
    abolition = ending a system or practice
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Abolitionists were becoming hopeful that more profound death penalty reform or possibly a moratorium might be achievable.  (source)
    Abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
  • Enough to answer one more preacher, one more abolitionist and a town full of disgust.  (source)
    abolitionist = a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
  • Merely to insist that slavery was an evil would sound like abolitionism and offend the Negrophobes.†  (source)
    abolitionism = the belief that slavery should be abolished
  • '" Not all antiabolitionist soldiers experienced such a conversion.†  (source)
    antiabolitionist = against  "abolitionist"
  • The "Centenary" was a reference to the fact that the scholarship was established one hundred years after the abolition of slavery in Jamaica.  (source)
    abolition = ending a system or practice of
  • Suppose I kept a fine stallion in one of my fields, and suddenly one of your Northern abolitionists came up and insisted I should free it.†  (source)
    abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
  • Now that particular body of water is significant in the novel, separating as it does slaveholding Kentucky from abolitionist Ohio.  (source)
    abolitionist = opposed to slavery
  • But Wilberforce joined after abolitionism was well under way, and the public wasn't stirred solely by Wilberforce's eloquence.†  (source)
    abolitionism = the belief that slavery should be abolished
  • Independence from Spain and then the abolition of slavery precipitated the conditions of honorable decadence in which Dr. Juvenal Urbino had been born and raised.  (source)
    abolition = ending a system or practice
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