abolitionize

[ab-uh-lish-uh-nahyz]

verb (used with object), ab·o·li·tion·ized, ab·o·li·tion·iz·ing.

(esp. prior to the Civil War) to convert (persons, a region, a state, etc.) to abolitionism.

Also especially British, ab·o·li·tion·ise.

Origin of abolitionize

An Americanism dating back to 1835–45; abolition + -ize

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Examples from the Web for abolitionize

Historical Examples of abolitionize

But they were to abolitionize Kansas, according to this report, and for what purpose?
The Life of Lyman Trumbull
Horace White
It will abolitionize the Border Slave States—it will brand our institution.
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America
W. E. B. Du Bois
They had proposed by the ballot box to abolitionize at least that portion of the State.
The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist
Annie Heloise Abel