Or does OWS emerge from a different tradition in American history, closer to abolitionists like Douglass?
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.
The abolitionists have no chance of persuading the government to drop the tests entirely.
The pleasure of hunters seems to worry some abolitionists as much as the pain of the hunted.
In fact, John Quincy was on record as opposing the abolitionists for being a danger to the nation.
The Murrows were Quaker abolitionists in slaveholding North Carolina, Republicans in Democratic territory, and grain farmers in tobacco country.
Meanwhile, the abolitionists running the underground railroad were excoriated for their unlawful behavior.
The abolitionists' success, after nearly two centuries of trying, has occurred everywhere despite apparent public backing for the death penalty.
Much as I applaud the work of the British abolitionists I do not give them most of the credit for the freedom of black slaves.
European countries have been among the most thoroughgoing of the abolitionists.
Because most Americans still support the death penalty in principle, abolitionists have had little choice but to welcome reform, even if it means improving a system they oppose.
Two of these same brothers, John and James, were abolitionists.
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Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and the abolitionists William and Henry James.
By keeping a narrow focus on what he believed was doable, even though naysayers told him it would never pass, and by asking abolitionists to tone down their demands, he demonstrated enlightened self-interest.
Since only three letters from Walker have been found, she comes alive through Peter and Susan's letters and their family papers, as well as through the Cameron family papers and the archives of Boston abolitionists.
One of the most steadfast and famous abolitionists in New England, he was far more radical than William Lloyd Garrison, if, that is, radicalism is measured by a willingness to entertain violence for the social good.
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