abolition movements
Anti-slavery organizing efforts
Abolition movements are organized efforts to end a legal practice or institution, most often slavery.
The term without qualification typically refers to the 18th- and 19th-century campaigns against the Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery in the Americas and Europe.
Contemporary usage extends to movements seeking to abolish prisons, police, or the death penalty: She's involved in prison abolition movements.
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- broken chainsBonds that have snapped
- freedom seekersThose escaping captivity
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
Harriet Tubman · abolitionism · moral suasion · petitions · Frederick Douglass · slave narratives · Haitian Revolution · boycotts · radical reform · grassroots organizing · John Brown · civil disobedience · anti-slavery societies · Sojourner Truth · lecture circuit · lobbying · egalitarianism · free soil
abolition movementsslave power
Enslaver political influence
plantation system · fire-eaters · slave trade · chattel slavery · human bondage
abolition movementsgradualism
Philosophy of incremental change
incrementalism · compromise · accommodation · appeasement · half-measures