激进分子，麻烦制造者。解放者。废奴主义者被称为许多名字，为了建立一个更完美的联盟而撕裂了国家。男人和女人，黑人和白人，北方人和南方人，穷人和富人——这些热情的反奴隶制活动家在美国历史上最重要的民权运动中全身心投入战斗。一场由说服和祈祷推动的和平主义运动开始成为一场火热而激烈的斗争，永远改变了这个国家。

废奴主义者讲述了弗雷德里克·道格拉斯、威廉·劳埃德·加里森、安吉丽娜·格里姆凯、哈丽特·比彻·斯托和约翰·布朗相互交织的故事，故事发生在美国历史上最暴力和最有争议的几十年。它揭示了这场运动如何通过揭露建立在某些人的自由和其他人的束缚基础上的共和国的致命缺陷来塑造历史。面对个人风险——殴打、监禁，甚至死亡——废奴主义者坚持他们的事业，为未来奠定民权基础，并提出了今天仍然存在的重大宪法和道德问题。

由 Rob Rapley 执导，The Abolitionists 将戏剧与传统纪录片叙事交织在一起，由 Richard Brooks、Neal Huff、Jeanine Serralles、Kate Lyn Sheil 和 T. Ryder Smith 主演，生动地再现了结束奴隶制的男人和女人的史诗般的斗争.

Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy--these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history. What began as a pacifist movement fueled by persuasion and prayer became a fiery and furious struggle that forever changed the nation.

Bringing to life the intertwined stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, The Abolitionists takes place during some of the most violent and contentious decades in American history. It reveals how the movement shaped history by exposing the fatal flaw of a republic founded on liberty for some and bondage for others. In the face of personal risks--beatings, imprisonment, even death--abolitionists held fast to their cause, laying the civil rights groundwork for the future and raising weighty constitutional and moral questions that are still with us today.

Directed by Rob Rapley, The Abolitionists interweaves drama with traditional documentary storytelling, and stars Richard Brooks, Neal Huff, Jeanine Serralles, Kate Lyn Sheil, and T. Ryder Smith, vividly bringing to life the epic struggles of the men and women who ended slavery.