He was an abolitionist. He wanted to end slavery in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

To his brother Parmelee confided, "I am more of an abolitionist than ever now, right up to the handle.

他对他的哥哥吐露道,"我现在是真正的废奴主义者,天下兴亡,匹夫有责

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And by means I don't entirely understand, Uriah Parmelee, in the spring of 1861, was an Abolitionist.

我不是很明白,乌利亚·帕米利在1861年的春天,还是个废奴主义者

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Brown won the support of a group of Abolitionist leaders.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

There was no good reason in the world that an abolitionist in the 1830s, '40s, and even the '50s, had any right to believe they would see the end of slavery in their lifetime.

然而在这世上并不存在一个好理由,使一个十九世纪三十年代,四十年代甚至五十年代的废奴者,几乎不可能相信,他们在有生之年会看到奴隶制的终结

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

First,he denied that the Republican Party was an Abolitionist party.

VOA: special.2009.06.11