Definition of "emancipationists" [emancipationists]

• Plural form of emancipationist. (noun)

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• "The "emancipationists" were excessively annoyed, and were showing the most infamous exasperation of feeling."
• "Furthermore, the North was divided into two antislavery camps: the emancipationists, who wanted slaves freed slowly over time and their owners compensated for the loss; and abolitionists, who wanted an immediate end to slavery."
• "Her father, Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, was one of the first Anglo-Jewish emancipationists, acting on his own to contact Members of Parliament when he felt that the Board of Deputies of British Jews was moving too slowly to lobby for reforms."