Sentences with 'abolishing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word abolishing and other words derived from it.
• « In September 1792, as the war began in earnest and the king languished in prison, a new constitution was instituted formally abolishing the monarchy and turning France into a republic with universal manhood suffrage. »
• « Virginia slaveholders freed some 10,000 slaves. In Massachusetts, the Wheatley family manumitted Phillis in 1773, when he was 21 years old. Other revolutionaries formed societies dedicated to abolishing slavery. »
• « The contradictions illustrate the difference between the letter and the spirit of the laws abolishing slavery in Massachusetts. »