abolition
Formal ending entirely
Abolition is the act of formally ending or eliminating something, typically a system, practice, or institution.
The word most often refers to the movement to end slavery, particularly in 19th-century America and Britain: Abolition became the defining cause of his life.
It applies to ending other practices as well: the abolition of the death penalty, abolition of monarchy.
An abolitionist advocates for such elimination.
Annul a statute
- annulmentDeclared void from start
- nullificationFormal cancellation of validity
- revocationOfficial cancellation of privilege
- abrogationAbolition of a law
rescission · invalidation · statute · legislation · enactment · ratification · decriminalization · prohibition
Formal freeing of enslaved
- antislaveryOpposing human bondage
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- enslavementForced human ownership
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
chattel · slaveholder · plantation · shackles · Underground Railroad · freedom · chains · auction
Constitutional ban on bondage
- LincolnMidwestern state capital
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- ReconstructionPost-1865 national reunification period
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
Frederick Douglass · Harriet Tubman · Seneca Falls · Sojourner Truth · John Brown · Dred Scott · Wilberforce · transatlantic
Direct effort for reform
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- petitionFormal written appeal
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
resistance · advocacy · reform · suffrage · equality · civil rights · Quakers · pamphlet
Legal execution for crimes
- capital punishmentExecution by legal authority
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
- solitary confinementIsolated imprisonment in cell
carceral · police · ICE · detention · moratorium · human trafficking · child labor · forced marriage
repeal
Annul a statute
- annulmentDeclared void from start
- nullificationFormal cancellation of validity
- revocationOfficial cancellation of privilege
abrogation · rescission · invalidation · statute · legislation · enactment · ratification · decriminalization · prohibition · moratorium
manumission
Formal freeing of enslaved
- antislaveryOpposing human bondage
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- enslavementForced human ownership
servitude · chattel · slaveholder · plantation · shackles · Underground Railroad · freedom · chains · auction · fugitive
Thirteenth Amendment
Constitutional ban on bondage
- LincolnMidwestern state capital
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- ReconstructionPost-1865 national reunification period
Frederick Douglass · Harriet Tubman · Civil War · Seneca Falls · Sojourner Truth · John Brown · Dred Scott · Wilberforce · transatlantic · colonialism
activism
Direct effort for reform
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- petitionFormal written appeal
- boycottOrganized economic protest
campaign · resistance · advocacy · reform · suffrage · equality · civil rights · Quakers · pamphlet · rally
death penalty
Legal execution for crimes
- capital punishmentExecution by legal authority
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
solitary confinement · carceral · police · ICE · detention · moratorium · human trafficking · child labor · forced marriage · corporal punishment
- history termsempire, dynasty, colonialism, Renaissance, Enlightenment
- cancellationsflight cancellation, trip cancellation, contract cancellation, calling off, annulment
- social movementscivil rights movement, labor movement, feminist movement, suffrage movement, environmental movement
- women's contributionssuffrage, voting rights, feminism, civil rights, equal pay
- comparative historycolonialism, imperialism, revolutions, modernization, industrialization
- human achievementsinventions, discoveries, monuments, art, architecture
abolitionestablishment
Founded organization or venue
institution · enactment · creation · founding · legalization
abolitionanti-abolitionism
Opposition to ending slavery
slavery · enslavement · antiabolitionist · slaveholding · human bondage
abolitionretention
Continued holding or possession
preservation · perpetuation · continuation · maintenance · reform
- abolition of slaveryEnding legalized human ownership
- abolitionist movementCampaign to end slavery
- abolition movementCampaign to end slavery
- slavery abolitionOutlawing ownership of people
- death penalty abolitionEliminating government-authorized killing
- abolitionist societiesOrganizations opposing human enslavement