emancipationist

American  

[ih-man-suh-pey-shuh-nist] / ɪˌmæn səˈpeɪ ʃə nɪst /

noun

1. a person who advocates emancipation, especially an advocate of the freeing of human beings from slavery.

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Etymology

Origin of emancipationist

First recorded in 1815–25; emancipation + -ist

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, a third emancipationist memory saw the war as a battle against slavery and the re-founding of America on a fuller appropriation of its principles.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2021

One reason race won’t go away is that the nation today is fighting over the replacement of a softer reconciliationist memory with the much more dehumanizing but accurate emancipationist one.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2021

This vote for Juneteenth is a real victory for another category of memory Blight identified, which is the emancipationist kind.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2021

They wrote that Hopkins himself was an emancipationist and that the documents available — including tax records — don’t support the school’s claim that he enslaved people.

From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2021

He is for no half-measures,—he avows himself a free-soiler, an emancipationist, an abolitionist, a colonizationist.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring