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abolitionize

American

[ab-uh-lish-uh-nahyz] / ˌæb əˈlɪʃ əˌnaɪz /

especially British, abolitionise

verb (used with object)

abolitionized, abolitionizing

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

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

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But they were to abolitionize Kansas, according to this report, and for what purpose?

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace

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