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- He may be travelling alongside an Abolitionist White Man not his lawful owner, with Green Eyes and Black Hair, of tall stature.†
p. 148.9abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
- The manservant had got the name wrong: it was the Abolitionist Society for the Betterment and Integration of Former Slaves.†
p. 310.1 *
- He may be travelling alongside an Abolitionist White Man not his lawful owner, with Green Eyes and Black Hair, of tall stature.†
p. 314.7
- His mother's steward said something to the same effect, as did his friend Robert Solander of the Abolitionist Society in London.†
p. 343.4
- But we did that, we went to the Abolitionist Society.†
p. 350.6
- And I described what Solander had said, about his arriving at the Abolitionist Society wearing what seemed to be another's clothes.†
p. 379.7
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)