A word for a person who opposed slavery?

This person would have been called an abolitionist. It is from the word abolition which before slavery days meant doing away with or destroying something completely but after the slavery era became associated with getting rid of slavery in particular. I hope this helps.

* Liberalism = liberal: noun: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

Abolitionist = abolition: 1529, see abolish. Specific application to "opposition to the black slave trade as a political question" is first attested 1788. Abolitionism in this sense is from 1790; abolitionist is from 1836. In Britain, applied 20c. to advocates of ending capital punishment.

Oh.. it's an abolitionist... I just got done reading about them in my History class!

there have been quite a few church homes that supported slavery. Malcolm X became no longer the in effortless words icon that blamed Christianity for its faults in slavery. in case you study some thing about Frederick Douglas, he too criticized Christians for utilizing the Bible as a foundation for very last slave vendors after replacing their slaves to Christianity. Christians used verses interior the Bible like "Obey thy draw close" as interpretations that slavery became no longer in effortless words proper yet anticipated interior the Bible. As many blacks jointly with individuals of African descent are literally Christians, respective sects are trying to address themes of previous discrimination. one extra element, as a Muslim, Malcolm X observed the atrocities that so observed as Christians were committing adverse to blacks and puzzled why any black individual would go jointly with one of those religion that did not see them as equals. no longer a nasty question in case you imagine about it from that attitude. for sure, black Christians do no longer view the misdeeds of a few so observed as Christians as being representative of the entire faith.

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abolitionist--how's that?

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