antislavery

American  

[an-tee-slay-vuh-ree, -slayv-ree, an-tahy-] / ˌæn tiˈsleɪ və ri, -ˈsleɪv ri, ˌæn taɪ- /

noun

1. opposition to slavery.

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adjective

1. of or relating to antislavery.

   The antislavery movement in the United States gained momentum in the early 19th century.

antislavery British  

/ ˌæntɪˈsleɪvərɪ /

adjective

1. opposed to slavery, esp slavery of Black people

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Etymology

Origin of antislavery

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20; anti- + slavery

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Example Sentences

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antislavery

Mr. Levin paints the pampered youngster as a “stubbornly self-centered” boy who kept “studiously aloof” from the antislavery activism that young Harvard radicals embraced in the late 1850s—and that Shaw was all but born to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Is the Constitution—the original one of 1787, before the later rights-extending amendments—pro-slavery or antislavery?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Southern postmasters thus continued to withhold antislavery periodicals, with the tacit approval of Jackson protégé Kendall.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

“Any time a cotton gin burned down in the South, they pointed to the Wide Awakes and other more radical antislavery Northerners and said, ‘This is arson.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025

There’s a section on the north wall dedicated to the antislavery movement.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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