Abolitionism
Crusade against bondage
Abolitionism is the movement to end slavery, particularly the organized effort in the 18th and 19th centuries to abolish the Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery in the Americas.
The term now extends to campaigns against other practices deemed morally intolerable: prison abolitionism, abolitionism regarding the death penalty.
An abolitionist advocates for such causes.
Release from legal bondage
- antislaveryOpposing human bondage
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · Sojourner Truth · plantation · bondage · chattel · Quakers · suffrage
Direct effort for reform
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- petitionFormal written appeal
- pamphletUnbound topical booklet
lecture · convention · society · propaganda · moral suasion · gradualism · radical · progressive
Domination through foreign settlement
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- WilberforceBritish antislavery campaigner
- HaitiCaribbean island nation
- CaribbeanTropical Atlantic region
Clarkson · triangular trade · Brazil · transatlantic · Sierra Leone · Liberia · repatriation · imperial
Confinement for offenders
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
- mass incarcerationExcessive imprisonment at scale
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- criminal justiceState apparatus for prosecuting offenders
Angela Davis · reform · decarceration · detention · police · surveillance · sentencing · parole
Criminal trade in people
- forced laborCompelled toil, no consent
- modern slaveryCurrent forced labor exploitation
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- sweatshopExploitative manufacturing workplace
debt bondage · child labor · sex trafficking · supply chain · fair trade · NGO · awareness · survivor
emancipation
Release from legal bondage
- antislaveryOpposing human bondage
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
Underground Railroad · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · Sojourner Truth · plantation · bondage · chattel · Quakers · suffrage · Thirteenth Amendment
activism
Direct effort for reform
pamphlet · lecture · convention · society · propaganda · moral suasion · gradualism · radical · progressive · coalition
colonialism
Domination through foreign settlement
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- WilberforceBritish antislavery campaigner
- HaitiCaribbean island nation
Clarkson · Caribbean · triangular trade · Brazil · transatlantic · Sierra Leone · Liberia · repatriation · imperial · Commonwealth
prison
Confinement for offenders
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
- mass incarcerationExcessive imprisonment at scale
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
Angela Davis · criminal justice · reform · decarceration · detention · police · surveillance · sentencing · parole · reentry
human trafficking
Criminal trade in people
- forced laborCompelled toil, no consent
- modern slaveryCurrent forced labor exploitation
- exploitationSelfish use of others
sweatshop · debt bondage · child labor · sex trafficking · supply chain · fair trade · NGO · awareness · survivor · rescue
- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
- Louisa May AlcottLittle Women, Jo March, Beth March, Amy March, Meg March
Abolitionismslave power
Enslaver political influence
slaveholding · plantation system · human bondage · slave codes · enslavement
- abolitionist movementCampaign to end slavery
- abolitionist societiesOrganizations opposing human enslavement