The large stock of abolitionism which Mrs. Nichols had brought with her from Massachusetts was a little diminished by force of habit, but the root was there still, in all its vigor, and since Aunt Polly's illness she had been revolving in her mind the momentous question, whether she would not be most guilty if Polly were suffered to die in bondage.
"'Lena Rivers"
Mary J. Holmes
His brand of abolitionism attacked the Constitution as a vicious document giving sanction to slavery.
"The Black Experience in America The Immigrant Heritage of America"
Norman Coombs
More remotely, Colonel Higginson was anti slavery almost to the point of abolitionism, and he led a negro regiment in the war.
"Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells