abolitionist

Noun
  1. A reformer who favors abolishing slavery (synset 109775968)
    is a type of: crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer - a disputant who advocates reform
    specific instances:
    • beecher, henry ward beecher - United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)
    • brown, john brown - abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
    • douglass, frederick douglass - United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
    • garrison, william lloyd garrison - United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)
    • harriet beecher stowe, harriet elizabeth beecher stowe, stowe - United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)
    • arthur tappan, tappan - United States abolitionist (1786-1865)
    • sojourner truth, truth - United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)
    • harriet tubman, tubman - United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)
    • theodore dwight weld, weld - United States abolitionist (1803-1895)
    same as: emancipationist

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