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- noun Plural form of
emancipationist .
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Examples
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The "emancipationists" were excessively annoyed, and were showing the most infamous exasperation of feeling.
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Furthermore, the North was divided into two antislavery camps: the emancipationists, who wanted slaves freed slowly over time and their owners compensated for the loss; and abolitionists, who wanted an immediate end to slavery.
Behind the Dividing Line of Slavery Mark Yost 2011
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Her father, Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, was one of the first Anglo-Jewish emancipationists, acting on his own to contact Members of Parliament when he felt that the Board of Deputies of British Jews was moving too slowly to lobby for reforms.
Anna Maria Goldsmid. 2009
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You are deceived by the representations of the emancipationists.
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Missouri, with whose radical emancipationists he had continuously been at loggerheads, ratified the amendment by a legislative vote of one hundred and eleven ayes to forty nays.
The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights
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One of the results was that the leading emancipationists of Great
The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights
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General Blair had been the leader of the Missouri emancipationists, but had turned against them.
The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights
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Some of his greatest nobles were anxious to take the lead as emancipationists, but he would not allow them to proceed in the only way that promised success, and so the bondage system was continued with the approbation of the Czar.
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The emancipationists of Missouri were working hard to free their State from slavery, and they would have been only too glad to have Mr. Lincoln do the work for them.
The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights
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_Missouri Democrat_, which, notwithstanding its name, was the organ of the Missouri emancipationists, and lived in part on the money he received as compensation for that work.
The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights
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