English

Delilah Shields

16 October, 18:47

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abolitionist

a person who likes to set fires

Every little while, I could hear something about the

abolitionists. It was some time before I found what the

word meant. It was always used in such connections as to

make it an interesting word to me. If a slave ran away and

succeeded in getting clear, or if a slave killed his master,

set fire to a barn, or did any thing very wrong in the mind

of a slaveholder, it was spoken of as the fruit of abolition.

-Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,

Frederick Douglass

a person who wants to take slavery away

a slave resisting his or her owner

a slave fighting back against his or her masters