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

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emancipationist

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

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

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

The parallels between Cassius Marcellus Clay the emancipationist and the boxing heavyweight champion of the world who once bore his name, while remarkable, also make Ali’s rejection of that name all the more appropriate.

From Time ● Jun. 10, 2016

All old differences of opinion were forgotten and due honor was paid to the poet, the priest, the emancipationist, and the temperance reformer of "Auld Lang Syne."

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore