The abolitionists have no chance of persuading the government to drop the tests entirely.
In fact, John Quincy was on record as opposing the abolitionists for being a danger to the nation.
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.
European countries have been among the most thoroughgoing of the abolitionists.
Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and the abolitionists William and Henry James.
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.
The pleasure of hunters seems to worry some abolitionists as much as the pain of the hunted.
The Murrows were Quaker abolitionists in slaveholding North Carolina, Republicans in Democratic territory, and grain farmers in tobacco country.
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.
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.
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