Antislavery

Word ANTISLAVERY
Character 11
Hyphenation an ti slav er y
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Antislavery"

What do we mean by antislavery?

Opposed to the practice of slavery.

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The word "antislavery" in example sentences

In Jackson's second term the antislavery movement began in earnest; the Whig party was organized and named; the national debt was paid off, and the surplus distributed. ❋ John Bach McMaster (1892)

We have already seen how deeply young Douglass was impressed with Mr. Garrison's writings in The Liberator, and it can be easily inferred that the word "antislavery" should have stirred him as no other word in the language of freedom. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Many historians link the Second Great Awakening to the birth of abolitionism; for example, regions where revival meetings were most intense tended subsequently to vote for antislavery candidates. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

As a result, the antislavery denominations were located where there were very few blacks. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

James Thome, the son of a Kentucky planter who joined the antislavery cause at Lane, declared that what he had seen growing up was “one great Sodom.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Francis Wayland, a prominent theologian, antislavery activist, and longtime president of Brown University in the decades before the Civil War, spoke for many of the cloth when he warned that “thoughtless caprice,” “sensual self-indulgence,” and “reckless expense” were not only sinful but also socially ruinous. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Actually, white Southerners would have been pro-slavery without religion; while white Northerners likely would have been antislavery only because of religion. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Theodore Dwight Weld no relation to Theodore Dwight, a leader of both the antislavery and school reform movements, aptly declared that inner restraints “are the web of civilized society, warp and woof.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

In 1841, in his second great antislavery battle, Adams was lead counsel before the U.S. Supreme Court for the enslaved Africans who, carried on the Spanish ship Amistad, overpowered their captors and tried to return to Africa. ❋ R. B. Bernstein (2011)

His business failures were due not only to his stubborn temperament and an unpredictable economy but also to his commitment to the antislavery cause. ❋ David S. Reynolds (2011)

The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 as a representative of the antislavery but not pro-abolition Republican Party triggered a panic by Southern leaders that slavery's future was threatened. ❋ Clarence Lusane (2011)

Sadly, Bachmann's inflated version of John Quincy Adams's antislavery record exemplifies how she and other Tea Party advocates remold the past into a founding-era-Disneyland version bolstering their political agenda. ❋ R. B. Bernstein (2011)

Thomas Nast , whose antislavery political cartoons propelled him to notoriety in the 19th century, has ignited another uproar: whether his anti-Irish and -Catholic drawings should disqualify him from the New Jersey Hall of Fame. ❋ Heather Haddon (2011)

David Reynolds sesquicentennial of the outbreak of the Civil War and the bicentennial of the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose antislavery best seller, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," created such a stir that Lincoln reportedly called Stowe "the little lady who made this great war." ❋ Unknown (2011)

The house had been on the market only a couple of months, but county officials felt compelled to act quickly: This might be their only chance to save the real Uncle Tom's Cabin -- the former home of Josiah Henson, the model for the title character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal antislavery novel, writes The Post's Annys Shin. ❋ John Wagner (2010)

The house had been on the market only a couple of months, but county officials felt compelled to act quickly: This might be their only chance to save the real Uncle Tom's Cabin - the former home of Josiah Henson, the model for the title character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal antislavery novel. ❋ Annys Shin (2010)

A passionate antislavery advocate, he helped found the city's first abolitionist society. ❋ Sophia Hollander (2011)

In "Mightier Than the Sword," a splendid and subtle history of the novel's effect on American culture, David S. Reynolds writes that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" "opened the way for a widespread acceptance in the North of antislavery arguments that had long been ignored or dismissed." ❋ Fergus M. Bordewich (2011)

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