| Most Spiritualists were outspoken abolitionists and often engaged in fiery polemics against slavery at lectures and seances. |
| It was already established practice that black American abolitionists travel to England, Scotland and sometimes Ireland on speaking tours. |
| To abolitionists, capital punishment is equally uncivilized and deserving of a definitive ruling of its unconstitutionality. |
| For the new abolitionists, it is not that composition is too elementary a subject for higher education. |
| It was first settled by Free Soilers, supported by New England abolitionists, to prevent slavery spreading west from Missouri. |
| The Southern opponents of polygenesis even employed many of the same arguments and sources used by abolitionists to attack white prejudice. |
