Abolitionism

How it is used

Specify whether a campaign targeted slave trading, slavery itself or both.

Example sentences

1. The newspaper became an important platform for abolitionism.

   The term names sustained campaigning, not the final legislative act.

2. Her chapter places formerly enslaved activists at the centre of abolitionism.

   The movement included people directly affected by enslavement.

Common collocations

• the abolitionist movement
• the history of abolitionism

Related terms

• slaveryA system in which people are legally owned by others, forced to work without pay and denied basic freedoms, or the condition of being enslaved.
• reformA planned change to laws, institutions or practices meant to improve them, usually made step by step by those in power rather than through revolution.

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• uprising
• nationalism
• independence
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• regime
• counter-revolution
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• iconoclasm
• enfranchisement
• disenfranchisement
• suffragist