noun. Advocacy of the abolition of slavery.

noun. Belief in the principle of abolition, as of slavery; devotion to or advocacy of the opinions of abolitionists.

noun. The principles or measures of abolitionists.

noun. the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery

"The northern counties had at once become strongly Anti-Nebraska; the conservative Whig counties of the center inclined to the Know-Nothings; while the Kentuckians and Carolinians, who had settled the southern end, had strong antipathies to what they called abolitionism, and applauded Douglas and repeal."

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