Sentence examples for opposed slavery from inspiring English sources
The Republicans opposed slavery.
Most opposed slavery and the Confederacy.
As an essayist and pamphleteer, Banneker opposed slavery and advocated civil rights.
Although he opposed slavery, he supported Stephen A. Douglas, the architect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
A devout Quaker, Coffin opposed slavery despite his Southern birth and upbringing.
Like all Connecticut Calvinists, Ellsworth firmly opposed slavery on religious grounds.
"My father wanted to have the evidence to oppose slavery," Abeid told me.
He delivered a 7,700-word 7,700-word addresse tonic, opposing slavery and favoring the union.
He was ahead of his time in opposing slavery and in rejecting the constitutional compromise that perpetuated it.
The antislavery atmosphere of the northeast led him to the idea of publishing a literary magazine to oppose slavery.
In New York, he was championed as a hero for his abolitionist beliefs and attempts to oppose slavery.
