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Example sentences for "slavery movement"

  • Elizur Wright became the champion of the anti-slavery movement, not only in the town of Hudson but throughout the State.

  • He had little sympathy with the anti-slavery movement, and was decidedly opposed to the religious liberalism of his time; but Doctor Peabody's interest lay in the salvation of human souls, and in this direction he had no equal.

  • She saw clearly the spirit and purpose of the Anti-Slavery Movement in this country, and was a regular contributor to the National Anti-Slavery Standard, published in New York.

  • It bears the same relation, to all the charities of the day, which strive nobly to serve woman, that the Anti-Slavery movement bears to all superficial palliations of slavery.

  • His press was presented to him by the women of England, who sympathized with the anti-slavery movement.

  • These societies have been originated by Ministers, and others of weight and influence, who think that their brethren can be more easily persuaded, as a religious body, to aid in the anti-slavery movement by this twofold action.

  • Among all conservative families there was a strong aversion to abolitionists and the whole anti-slavery movement.

  • In these gatherings we met the leading Quaker families and many other philanthropists of different denominations interested in the anti-slavery movement.

  • I will vote for every Anti-Slavery movement in this Convention.

  • Men undervalue the Anti-slavery movement, because they imagine you can always put your finger on some illustrious moment in history, and say, here commenced the great change which has come over the nation.

  • She has been very prominent in the anti-slavery movement.

  • The first thing is, as in the anti-slavery movement, so to arouse the public mind as to make this the central question.

  • He saw what an effect the annexation would produce upon the anti-slavery movement, and he dreaded the results.

  • In 1836 the anti-slavery movement, destined to grow to such vast proportions, began to show itself in the Senate.

  • He had always understood the force of the anti-slavery movement at the North, and it was with much anxiety that he now saw it take definite shape, and assume extreme grounds of opposition.

  • I had not long been a reader of the Liberator, and listener to its editor, before I got a clear apprehension of the principles of the anti-slavery movement.

  • Previous to my contemplation of the anti-slavery movement, and its probable results, my mind had been seriously awakened to the subject of religion.

  • The free soil party has grown out of the anti-slavery movement.

  • He found a few others, a very few, and began the anti-slavery movement.

  • One thing must be said of the leaders of the anti-slavery movement.

  • With a heart to feel every grand and heroic impulse, she had entered with enthusiasm into the anti-slavery movement of her own country, and was prepared to welcome the obscure, unknown apostle of the same faith from American shores.

  • I came just at the critical period of the anti-slavery movement; and I came without such endorsement as is usually considered necessary in city churches in the East.

  • Much stress has been laid by Suffragists upon the supposed fact that the Woman-suffrage movement grew up as a logical conclusion from the Anti- slavery movement.

  • Women, in the churches and out, were the strength of the Anti-slavery movement; but not these women.

  • The Ohio Conference of the same denomination had passed resolutions urging resistance to the anti-slavery movement.

  • The southernmost section, including South Carolina, Georgia, and the Gulf States, was even more sharply defined in the attitude it assumed toward the anti-slavery movement.

  • Though the Society of Friends fills a large place in the anti-slavery movement, its contribution to the growth of the conception of equality is even more significant.

  • Within the past ten years, a great impetus has been given to the anti-slavery movement in America by coloured men who have escaped from slavery.

  • He was one of the earliest to give countenance and support to the anti-slavery movement.


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