abolitionists
Anti-slavery crusaders
Abolitionists are people who advocate for the complete elimination of a practice or institution, most often slavery.
The term is strongly associated with the 19th-century movement to end slavery in the United States and British Empire: Frederick Douglass was among the most influential abolitionists.
Today the word applies to campaigns against other practices: prison abolitionists, death penalty abolitionists.
Opposing human bondage
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
- JuneteenthEmancipation anniversary celebration
slave trade · Fugitive Slave Act · 13th Amendment · Emancipation Proclamation · antebellum · freedom · liberation · bondage
Voting rights activists
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
- equalitySame status for all
- humanitarianismPromoting welfare through compassion
- social justiceFair distribution of opportunities
progressivism · feminism · Seneca Falls · human rights · moral reform · religious revival · evangelical · philanthropy
- Sojourner TruthAbolitionist and suffragist orator
- John BrownRadical antislavery insurrectionist
- QuakersPacifist Protestant denomination
- LincolnMidwestern state capital
Formally requesting action
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- boycottOrganized economic protest
grassroots · civil disobedience · nonviolent resistance · pamphlets · speeches · lectures · newspapers · North Star
Boldness before danger
- fearlessnessComplete lack of dread
- fortitudeEnduring courage under pain
- resolveFirmness of purpose
- tenacityPersistent grip or resolve
steadfastness · defiance · risk · sacrifice · persecution · imprisonment · martyrdom · conviction
antislavery
Opposing human bondage
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
Juneteenth · slave trade · Fugitive Slave Act · 13th Amendment · Emancipation Proclamation · antebellum · freedom · liberation · bondage · servitude
suffragists
Voting rights activists
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
- equalitySame status for all
- humanitarianismPromoting welfare through compassion
social justice · progressivism · feminism · Seneca Falls · human rights · moral reform · religious revival · evangelical · philanthropy
Harriet Tubman
- Sojourner TruthAbolitionist and suffragist orator
- John BrownRadical antislavery insurrectionist
- QuakersPacifist Protestant denomination
Frederick Douglass · Lincoln · Nat Turner · William Wilberforce
petitioning
Formally requesting action
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
boycott · grassroots · civil disobedience · nonviolent resistance · pamphlets · speeches · lectures · newspapers · North Star · tracts
bravery
Boldness before danger
- fearlessnessComplete lack of dread
- fortitudeEnduring courage under pain
- resolveFirmness of purpose
tenacity · steadfastness · defiance · risk · sacrifice · persecution · imprisonment · martyrdom · conviction · commitment
- Americanspresidents, senators, governors, generals, authors
- reformersreformers, reformer, social reformers, social reformer, political reformer
- Black HistoryMartin Luther King Jr., MLK, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
- women's historywomen's history, herstory, women's movement, suffrage movement, notable women
- 1860sAbraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Appomattox, Confederacy, Confederate States
abolitionistsslaveholders
Owners of enslaved people
slave owners · slave traders · fire-eaters · secessionists · slave catchers
abolitionistsenslavers
Those who own humans
slave drivers · masters · overseers · plantation owners · bondholders
abolitionistsconservatives
Advocates for gradual change
traditionalists · reactionaries · apologists · preservationists · gradualists
- abolitionist movementCampaign to end slavery
- abolitionist societiesOrganizations opposing human enslavement