immediatism
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- immediatist noun
Etymology
Origin of immediatism
Example Sentences
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The best-known radical abolitionist was William Lloyd Garrison, a white Massachusetts reformer who had worked for temperance and colonization before free blacks in Baltimore converted him to immediatism.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Garrison also preached immediatism: the moral demand to take immediate action to end slavery.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
These English abolitionists were coming to "immediatism" from 1824, and their influence told in America.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring
He favoured immediatism, but he differed sharply from the Garrisonian abolitionists, who abhorred the federal Constitution and favoured secession.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
Garrison, consequently rejected gradualism as a weapon, and took up instead the great and quickening doctrine of immediatism.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry
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