All 7 Uses of
abolition
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- who bowed to the evil of slavery because its abolition threatened untold ill to all;†
Chpt 2
- Usually, however, such criticism has not found open expression, although, too, the spiritual sons of the Abolitionists have not been prepared to acknowledge that the schools founded before Tuskegee, by men of broad ideals and self-sacrificing spirit, were wholly failures or worthy of ridicule.†
Chpt 3abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
- Schemes of migration and colonization arose among them; but these they refused to entertain, and they eventually turned to the Abolition movement as a final refuge.†
Chpt 3 *
- With the beginning of the abolition movement and the gradual growth of a class of free Negroes came a change.†
Chpt 10
- For fifty years Negro religion thus transformed itself and identified itself with the dream of Abolition, until that which was a radical fad in the white North and an anarchistic plot in the white South had become a religion to the black world.†
Chpt 10
- "I'm going to bring a black boy here to educate," said Beriah Green, as only a crank and an abolitionist would have dared to say.†
Chpt 12abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
- But the godly farmers hitched ninety yoke of oxen to the abolition schoolhouse and dragged it into the middle of the swamp.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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