emancipationist

[ ih-man-suh-pey-shuh-nist ]

noun

1. a person who advocates emancipation, especially an advocate of the freeing of human beings from slavery.

Word History and Origins

Origin of emancipationist¹

First recorded in 1815–25; emancipation + -ist

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, a third emancipationist memory saw the war as a battle against slavery and the re-founding of America on a fuller appropriation of its principles.

From Seattle Times

They wrote that Hopkins himself was an emancipationist and that the documents available — including tax records — don’t support the school’s claim that he enslaved people.

From Washington Post

“In the end this is a story of how the forces of reconciliation overwhelmed the emancipationist vision in the national culture, how the inexorable drive for reunion both used and trumped race.”

From Seattle Times

Unlike Garrison, who called for the immediate end to slavery, Cash became an emancipationist supporting gradual emancipation.

From Time

In Ireland, he calls on the Catholic emancipationist Daniel O’Connell but there also encounters an enchanting African woman, with whom he begins to fall in love.

From Washington Post