antislavist

English

Alternative forms

• anti-slavist

Noun

antislavist (plural antislavists)

1. (historical) An opponent of slavery, an abolitionist.

   Antonym: proslavist

   • [1999, David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823‎^[1]:

     The term "anti-slavist", used by Jeremy Bentham, never gained wide currency.]

   • 2014, Shelby T. McCloy, The Negro in the French West Indies‎^[2], page 74:

     Both the English antislavist Thomas Clarkson and the French antislavist Abbé Henri Grégoire, to whom he had revealed his plans to return, advised him strongly to desist.