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6 days ago · Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies.
2 days ago · In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).
3 days ago · Abolitionism is a political movement centered around ending slavery. Thanks to abolitionism, the Atlantic slave trade, in which kidnapped Central and West Africans were sold as property in Europe and the U.S., finally ended in the 19th century. Abolitionism is a belief that slavery must end.
May 9, 2024 · Militant American abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia), in 1859 that he hoped would spark a slave rebellion. It made him a martyr to the antislavery cause and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War (1861–65).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
6 days ago · William Lloyd Garrison (born December 10, 1805, Newburyport, Massachusetts, U.S.—died May 24, 1879, New York, New York) was an American journalistic crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator (1831–65), and helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States. The Liberator.
- John L. Thomas
May 15, 2024 · Southerners burned abolitionist pamphlets mailed to the South, and southern representatives succeeded in having Congress ban all discussion of antislavery petitions. These actions, for many northerners, turned the issue from one of slavery for blacks to one of civil liberties for whites.
2 days ago · Frederick Douglass, African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author who is famous for his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. He became the first Black U.S. marshal and was the most photographed American man of the 19th century.
