Abolitionists

the nume given to that party in the United States which had for its object the total abolition of slavery. Their aims were accomplished, after many years of agitation, when Presideut Lincoln abolished slavery, in 1863. [SLAVERY] Abolla, a woollen cloak worn principally by soldiers in ancient Greece and Rome, and opposed to the toga, which was the distinguishing mark of a civilian. At Rome the Stoic philosophers adopted it as a distinctive dre , Abomey, formerly the capital of Dahomey, West Africa, about 60 miles N. of the chief port, Whydah. A large, straggling, dirty, mud-built town, whose inhabitants carry on a brisk trade in alm-oil, ivory, gold, and slaves. Abomey was the Vaadgnartens of the King of Dahomey until 1900, when he was exiled. Here the annual “ customs were celebrated by butchering numbers of prisoners Aborigines, the carlicst known inhabitants of any district. The term was applied, however, by Roman historians specially to an ancient tribe inhabiting Latium; it is now used in its general sense to signify the original occupiers of a country as distinguished from colonists or invaders.