abolitionize

[ ab-uh-lish-uh-nahyz ]

/ ˌæb əˈlɪʃ əˌnaɪz /

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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.

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

Origin of abolitionize

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

The fact of separation on the ground supposed, would abolitionize the whole North.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus|American Anti-Slavery Society
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
But they were to abolitionize Kansas, according to this report, and for what purpose?
The Life of Lyman Trumbull|Horace White
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