abolition movement
Fight against bondage
The abolition movement was the organized effort to end slavery, particularly in the United States and British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Abolitionists advocated through speeches, publications, and political action, with figures like Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison among its leaders.
The abolition movement gained momentum after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- broken chainsBonds that have snapped
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
- petitionsFormal requests for action
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abolition movementslave power
Enslaver political influence
fire-eaters · slavery · slave trade · plantation system · chattel slavery
abolition movementoppression
Unjust exercise of power
enslavement · chattel slavery · human trafficking · bondage · servitude