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EMANCIPATIONIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A reformer who favors abolishing slavery
Synonyms:
abolitionist; emancipationist
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("emancipationist" is a kind of...):
crusader; meliorist; reformer; reformist; social reformer (a disputant who advocates reform)
Instance hyponyms:
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))
Derivation:
emancipation (freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child)
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