emancipationist

Other forms: emancipationists

Definitions of emancipationist

1. noun

   a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
   synonyms: abolitionist

   examples:

   Henry Ward Beecher

   United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)

   John Brown

   abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)

   Frederick Douglass

   United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)

   William Lloyd Garrison

   United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)

   Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe

   United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)

   Arthur Tappan

   United States abolitionist (1786-1865)

   Sojourner 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

   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

   United States abolitionist (1803-1895)

   type of:

   crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer

   a person or group who pushes to improve an institution or system by changing it