antislavist
English
Noun
antislavist (plural antislavists)
- (historical) An opponent of slavery, an abolitionist.
- Antonym: proslavist
- [1999, David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823:
- The term "anti-slavist", used by Jeremy Bentham, never gained wide currency.]
- 2014, Shelby T. McCloy, The Negro in the French West Indies, page 74:
- Both the English antislavist Thomas Clarkson and the French antislavist Abbé Henri Grégoire, to whome he had revealed his plans to return, advised him strongly to desist.