单词 | black republican |
释义 | > as lemmasBlack Republican Black Republican n. U.S. (now historical) a member of the Republican Party of the United States, characterized (esp. amongst Democrats) as an abolitionist or advocate of black civil rights. ΚΠ 1854 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Lake Jrnl. 16 Aug. The ‘Black Republicans’.—The mongrel Convention of Abolitionists, Free Soilers, Whigs, Political Clergymen, and Fugitive Slaves. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. (at cited word) The Whig party..adopted the name of Republicans, and were called by their opponents Black Republicans, from their anti-slavery tendencies. 1929 L. W. Reese Victorian Village 121 Confederate and Federal men, statesrighters and black Republicans might froth and rave about them. 2000 M. Sinha Counterrevolution of Slavery vi. 174 Etheridge's moral condemnation of the foreign slave trade clearly reflected a minority position in the slave South. A year later, he had to fight against being branded a free soiler and a Black Republican. < as lemmas |
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