abolitionists

If you read _why_ religious abolitionists were abolitionists, you'll see plenty of purely religious reasons for that.

There's at least a few thousand abolitionists like myself ready to pioneer the land a state is willing to cede.

In the US history, it would mean to have been e.g.among the earliest abolitionists.

Aside from the obvious schism between the abolitionists and the anti-abolitionists, there were economic factors, both domestic and inter-- Proctor: Wait, wait...

Wilberforce and other abolitionists argued from biblical belief that all had been made in the image of God.

Abolitionism is first of all a political project: the abolitionists study Jewishness in order to abolish it.

Btw.: The abolitionists attempted to abolish wage slavery as well but it's still prevalent.

It's not as if Americans were abolitionists until the cotton gin was invented.

It's also pretty rich to compare abolitionists -- people campaigning for an expansion of human rights -- to someone who did the exact opposite.

Mutatis mutandis, the abolitionists and later civil rights movement did not achieve their aims with regards to racial equality by harassing people for using n-bombs.

Also a direct assault on the economics of the sugar plantations in Jamaica would have stirred some strong opposition that the abolitionists were keen to avoid.

The reformists are the IP industries only real hope at this point, because if they are not paid attention to, then the abolitionists will win the argument.

Slavery was turned into "owning another human" by abolitionists who wanted to play up its squick factor.

Whatever else I think about the idea that Carlyle "made better predictions than the abolitionists", I think I can object that the problem doesn't stop at the approving references to Carlyle.

These "reasonable" and "extremist" type arguments are simply support of custom and status quo and could have just as easily been leveled at abolitionists 200 years ago (and almost certainly were).

"We are building forensics to fight human trafficking online - abolitionists must bring the fight to the internet!" It looks like Rescue Forensics has aligned itself with sex work abolitionist groups that pose as anti-trafficking groups.

Abolitionists within the company actually got promos printed that violated it, so the issue eventually came to a head.

Abolitionists were once thought of as being on the lunatic fringe.

Bloodthirsty assholes, I guess, or maybe neo-Abolitionists.