emancipationist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of emancipationist
First recorded in 1815–25; emancipation + -ist
Example Sentences
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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
This vote for Juneteenth is a real victory for another category of memory Blight identified, which is the emancipationist kind.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 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
It was first made by Mr. Barnes, or Dr. Channing, or some other learned emancipationist, and after them by Mr. Sumner.
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.
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