Sentences with phrase «abolitionist sentiments»

The movie builds on Lincoln's real visits to Louisiana as a young man, where he saw the abuse and mistreatment of slaves and began to develop his own abolitionist sentiments.
«Docility is too much like slavery,» Emily's father says, an abolitionist sentiment that neatly distills the atmosphere of religious devotion and intellectual freedom that was allowed to flourish in the Dickinson household.
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