The righteous outrage of abolitionists who tried to end slavery in the mid-1800s was justified even if they would not have been so outraged in different circumstances – say, where the country had not been on the brink of civil war.
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As Brookhiser fully appreciates—he does not equivocate or run from the truth—Lincoln was no radical, no abolitionist.
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That woman, an island hero, Betto Douglas, may have been a relative of the famous American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.
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There was scarcely such a thing in 1789 as an "abolitionist."
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How common was it for Quakers from England to face the abolitionist dilemma during the period before the Civil War?