Word: abolitionists
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...suit alleges that Chase-Riboud invented the notion that the rebellion's leader, Cinque, had a son, which is also suggested in the film, but other histories say he did indeed have children. One of the suit's most substantive claims is that both works include a fictional black abolitionist who aids in the Africans' legal case. But there was no shortage of real-life black abolitionists at the time, and it's hard to imagine any dramatist presenting this story to a contemporary audience without an African-American activist at its core...
...William Lloyd Garrison, famed abolitionist and editor of the influential abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society here, according to the Guide...
...wife, the Southern lady, allegedly the pinnacle of virtue, allowed this sick behavior to corrupt her family. Her husband's excuses for forcing himself on his slaves (to "satisfy his animal instincts") were unchallenged. While Northern women courageously promoted the Abolitionist cause, the Southern woman passively abetted her society's debasement...
Ireland's Catholics had long identified with and supported America's abolitionist movements with a fervor they encouraged amongst their American kin. Religious persecution under the notorious British Penal Laws had driven Irish Catholics to New England by the thousands. As virtual slave laborers, the Irish ended up in black communities. They worked the same jobs, lived in the same neighborhoods, and engendered from the close, often intimate proximity, the first recorded incidence of 'mulattoes' as a census grouping in states like Pennsylvania...
...Irish gained social and economic prominence, they also sought to codify their supremacy over blacks politically. They led campaigns to further disenfranchise black communities that had virtually no right to vote anyway, and they turned away from their abolitionist roots during the Jacksonian era to support the pro-slavery Democratic party. Irish had learned to treat their whiteness as a lever and blackness as a fulcrum, to pry themselves upwards into social and political prominence...