Definition of abolitionist
plural abolitionists
: a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery : an advocate of abolition
- Before going to England I had had no proper conception of the deep interest displayed by the abolitionists of England in the cause of freedom, nor did I realize the amount of substantial help given by them.
- —Booker T. Washington
- On the spectrum of abhorrent business practices, buying and selling humans, especially children, remains the gold standard. Yet modern abolitionists say it happens all the time.
- —Belinda Luscombe
- While with him at an antislavery convention in London, which shocked her by barring women as delegates, she found her ideal model in another delegate, Lucretia Mott, the noted Quaker abolitionist and feminist.
- —Milton Rugoff
