Who were known as the abolitionists? A.
people who demanded the emancipation of slaves
B.
plantation owners of the southern colonies
C.
fugitive slaves who escaped from their owners
D.
people who voted against the US Constitution
E.
the slave traders of Africa

Correct answer is A.  people who demanded the emancipation of slaves.

Explanation:

A is the correct answer as it refers to the people who were fighting for deliberation and emancipation of slaves. Among them, probably the most famous one was Abraham Lincoln.

B is not correct as owners of plantation were against abolitionists, as they needed slaves to work on their plantations.

C is not correct as fugitive slaves were the people deprived of their rights, who run away from hard life that was imposed to them.

D is not correct as it doesn't refer to people who asked for banishment of slavery.

E is not correct as this people are totally opposite to abolitionists.

paul willis (born 1950) is a british social scientist known for his work in sociology and cultural studies. paul willis' work is widely read in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and education, his work emphasizing consumer culture, socialization, music, and popular culture. he was born in wolverhampton[1] and received his education at the university of cambridge and at the university of birmingham. he worked at centre for contemporary cultural studies and subsequently at the university of wolverhampton. he was a professor of social/cultural ethnography at keele university. in the autumn of 2010, he left keele university and is now a professor at princeton university.

paul willis’s work has focused mainly, but not exclusively, on the ethnographic study of lived cultural forms in a wide variety of contexts. from highly structured to weakly structured ones, willis examines how practices of `informal cultural production` to produce and construct cultural worlds `from below`.[2]

trained in literary criticism at cambridge,[2] paul willis received his phd in 1972 from the centre for contemporary cultural studies at birmingham university where he remained as senior research fellow until 1981. he gave a paper at the 9th symposium of the natiohnal deviancy conference in january 1972 entitled 'a motor-bike subculture

during the 1980`s willis served as youth policy adviser to wolverhampton borough council in the english midlands. there he produced the youth review (published by the council and ashgate) which formed the basis for youth policy and for the formation of the democratically elected youth council, both still functioning. during the 1990s he served first as head of the division of media, communications and cultural studies, and then as a member of the professoriate at the university of wolverhampton. in 2000 willis co-founded the sage journal, ethnography. in 2003 willis was hired as a head professor of social and cultural ethnography at keele university.