All 13 Uses
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Harriet Tubman, by Petry
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- The subject of slavery was introduced because some of the counties, alarmed by the Nat Turner insurrection, had petitioned for the gradual emancipation of the slaves or for abolition of slavery.
Chpt 6 *abolition = ending a system or practice
- In the North, men who had been indifferent to slavery, men who had been openly hostile toward the Abolitionists, men who hated Garrison and his newspaper, The Liberator, with a deep and abiding hatred, were stirred to anger.†
Chpt 11abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
- In the letter he not only expressed his own conviction that the Fugitive Slave Law was wrong, but he eloquently expressed the refusal of the Abolitionists to obey the law: "....I am not a man who loves violence; I respect the sacredness of human life, but this I say, solemnly, that I will do all in my power to rescue any fugitive slave from the hands of any officer who attempts to return him to bondage......I will do it as readily as I would lift a man out of the water, or pluck him from the teeth of a wolf, or snatch him from the hands of a murderer.†
Chpt 12
- Like the Abolitionists, she believed slavery to be morally wrong—for masters and slaves alike.†
Chpt 13
- But the Abolitionists were appalled, and talked of rescuing Sims.†
Chpt 13
- Syracuse was an Abolitionist stronghold, and the church bells were used to give the alarm whenever a fugitive was in danger.†
Chpt 13abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
- There was always the possibility that mail with a Northern postmark might contain Abolitionist propaganda, and when it was addressed to a free Negro, it was almost certain to contain objectionable material.†
Chpt 16
- Though the Standard carefully avoided all mention of Harriet Tubman's name, it was a recognized fact in Abolitionist circles that she was responsible for the panic.†
Chpt 19
- She was unaware of the fact that Brown and his assistants kept referring to her in the letters that they sent to the Boston Abolitionists who were helping to finance his project.†
Chpt 20abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
- In Boston, Wendell Phillips, Abolitionist and reformer, commended those who looked "upon that gibbet of John Brown, not as the scaffold of a felon, but as the cross of a martyr."†
Chpt 20abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
- People said that in northern Ohio, where Levi Coffin operated the busiest branch of the Underground Railroad, it was impossible to put an Abolitionist in jail and keep him there, no matter how guilty he might be of harboring runaways.†
Chpt 21
- With the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in December, the long period of agitation for the abolition of slavery came to an end.†
Chpt 22
- Like many other former Abolitionists, she became interested in the movement for women's suffrage.†
Chpt 22abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
Definitions:
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(1)
(abolition) the act of formally ending a system, practice, or institution -- most often used to refer to the movement to end slavery when no specific system is named
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)