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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to Benton, Whigs and the abolitionists who wanted Florida to remain a haven for runaways were in agreement.
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But since you mentioned it, what I would really like to be is an abolitionist .
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But the political price was always judged too high by ministers, despite the logic of the abolitionist cause.
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Enough to answer one more preacher, one more abolitionist and a town full of disgust.
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For many abolitionists emancipation was celebrated by raising Buxton to the pantheon of heroes.
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The abolitionist stand does provide a warning beacon against which penal policies, such as prison building programmes, might be assessed.
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The absence of military protection for the abolitionists in Alton lends credence to legal indifference that bound the country at this time.