abolition efforts
Anti-slavery organizing work
Abolition efforts are organized activities aimed at ending a practice or institution, most commonly slavery.
The term evokes the historical movement to abolish slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries: Abolition efforts intensified after the publication of slave narratives.
Today it extends to campaigns against capital punishment, prisons, or other systems deemed unjust.
- civil rights legislationLaws ensuring equal citizen protections
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- marchRhythmic group walk
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- human bondageForced servitude of people
breaking chains · abolitionism · petition drives · protest marches · Harriet Tubman · freedom · liberty or death · Frederick Douglass · Underground Railroad · safe houses · anti-slavery societies · coalition building · chains · shackles · auction block · runaway slaves · freedom seekers · constitutional amendments
abolition effortspreservation efforts
Activities to protect from loss
perpetuation · institutionalization · entrenchment · maintenance · upholding
abolition effortsretrenchment
Reduction of expenditures
counterrevolution · regression · rollback · backsliding · traditionalism
abolition effortsoppression
Unjust exercise of power
subjugation · enslavement · Jim Crow laws · segregationist policies · colonial expansion
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