Noun : the abolitionists who are opposed to capital punishment.    From Dictionary.com. 

The term abolitionists refers to those who were actively against slavery, which movement was mainly in the Britain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

They were called abolitionists and they were both black and white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Trade?] Reference

In South Carolina, the abolitionists were the prime target of vigilantes in the 1840s.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Law] Reference

And those people called abolitionists, that I met with on the way, are a mean set of rascals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad; Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents] Reference

But how unite this opposition made up of Whigs, of Democrats, and of so-called abolitionists?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01] Reference

Others soon followed the Delaware Colony group, all known as abolitionists or at least being against slavery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal-Standard Homepage RSS] Reference

"abolitionists" -- or people who spoke and wrote for the abolition of slavery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln] Reference

Who are these so-called "abolitionists", I would demand to know?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

When they hear "abolitionists," think about Frederick Douglass or Harriet Tubman.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2007] Reference

Douglas's violent denunciation of "abolitionists" and "abolitionismn" appealed with singular power to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01] Reference

Shannon presided; John Calhoun, the Surveyor-General, made the principal speech, a denunciation of the "abolitionists" supporting the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01] Reference

The abolitionists were the moral minority.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2004] Reference

"abolitionists" (Lovejoy had been elected among these), and finally of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01] Reference

"abolitionists," as the would-be liberators of slaves were called, that he could only get one man beside himself to sign this protest.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference

The debate proved to be valuable to the abolitionists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

What, if anything, can we learn from the abolitionists?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Feel the Weight of That History'] Reference

Now, thought I, we abolitionists are going to take a blessing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

It was long a reproach brought by the abolitionists against Henry Ward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

The Grimke sisters, who were pre-Civil War abolitionists, really tickled me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q&Amp;A: A Few Good Women] Reference

Timbuctoo was founded in the 1820s when Quaker abolitionists sold land to black men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excavation of sites such as Timbuctoo, N.J., is helping to rewrite African American history] Reference

"Oh, there's such a set of d---- d abolitionists there I can't do it," said Chester.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

Prof. Channing does not go into details as to the achievements of the abolitionists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference

"A lady of Seneca Falls," a third person adds, "from a great family of abolitionists.".    From Wordnik.com.  [He'll Take Manhattan] Reference

As early as the 1830s, abolitionists were petitioning Congress to end slavery in Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [The slave trade and Alexandria's withdrawal from D.C.] Reference

He was nominated by a convention of extreme abolitionists that met in the city of Cleveland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

The abolition of slavery required someone (Lincoln) who was anathema to fanatical abolitionists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Save Us From The Purists] Reference

The extreme abolitionists nominated him as candidate for the presidency in opposition to Lincoln.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

I have still in remembrance the many mobs to which abolitionists were exposed for discussing their views.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

They were then advised to visit some prominent abolitionists, where they were satisfied she had been taken.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

It alienated many of the extreme abolitionists, including even his old neighbor and friend, Oscar H. Browning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

All this time, while holding back the eager spirits of the abolitionists, he was preparing for his final stroke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

She was spirited off by some Buffalo abolitionists, transferred to a steamer flying the British flag, and landed in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

"Then I ask you to define an abolitionist, for I call these men as radical abolitionists as we have in our country.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

This information I could not obtain from anti-slavery books, or from the most prominent abolitionists whom I consulted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872] Reference

In 1841, British abolitionists, with the government's help, sent 300 Europeans and Africans up the Niger aboard three steamers.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Idealists Run Amok] Reference

Observers expect abolitionists will carry the day when M. P.s vote this week, despite some fierce opposition from Conservatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [GUNNING FOR THE HUNT] Reference

Then again, there was the dispute between abolitionists and those who favored the "peculiar institution" that existed 150 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art Brodsky: Purists and Zealots for Internet Freedom] Reference