Read the except.
"every little while, i could hear something about the abolitionists. it was some time before i found what the word meant. it was always used in such connections as to make it an interesting word to me. if a slave ran away and succeeded in getting clear, or if a slave killed his master, set fire to a barn, or did any thing very wrong in the mind of a slaveholder, it was spoken of as the fruit of abolition.
—narrative of the life of frederick douglass,
frederick douglass"
use your knowledge of context clues, word roots, and affixes to determine the meaning of the word abolitionist.
a. a person who likes to set fires
b. a person who wants to take slavery away
c. a slave resisting his or her owner
d. a slave fighting back against his or her masters - already chose that and its incorrect