1. Her Uncle Tom's Cabin inspired a generation of abolitionists and set the stage for civil war. 她的作品《汤姆叔叔的小屋》唤醒了一代废奴主义者，酝酿了一场内战。
2. Abolitionists have been galvanised by findings that many innocent people-more than 120 since 1973-were wrongly sentenced to death. 由于发现有无辜者——自1973年以来有超过120人——被错误地处死，这已经大大激怒了那些死刑废除主义者。
3. If anyone was the founder of the modern human-rights movement it was Clarkson. Even the Quakers, the first abolitionists, were impressed by his zeal. 如果说起谁是现代人权运动的奠基人，那此人非克拉克森莫属，教友派信徒是初期的废奴主义者，对于克拉克森的热忱他们是深受感动。
4. Abolitionists have had more luck, at least temporarily, by arguing that lethal injection, the form of execution most widely adopted, is excruciatingly painful. 至少在目前，在另一方面废除死刑者运气更好。他们争辩说毒剂注射这种最广泛使用的行刑方式是极度痛苦的。
5. Many Republicans were Abolitionists. They wanted to ban slavery everywhere in the United States. The majority of Republicans, however, were not Abolitionists. 很多共和党人是废奴主义者，他们想在美国各州都取缔奴隶制，然而共和党人的大多数并非废奴主义者。
