abolition of slavery
Ending human bondage
The abolition of slavery is the legal ending of the practice of owning human beings as property.
The phrase typically refers to the historical movement and legislative acts that dismantled slavery in various nations during the 18th and 19th centuries: The abolition of slavery in the British Empire came in 1833.
In the United States, abolition came through the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
- whipStrikes or aerates
- John BrownRadical antislavery insurrectionist
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- Haitian RevolutionSuccessful slave rebellion, 1790s
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Frederick Douglass · Harriet Tubman · manumission · Sojourner Truth · freedom · broken chains · chains · Reconstruction Era · shackles · Thirteenth Amendment · abolitionist movements · William Wilberforce · Underground Railroad · Middle Passage · Justice · Abraham Lincoln · 13th Amendment · North Star
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abolition of slaveryslavery
Ownership of people
chattel slavery · human bondage · slave codes · enslavement · proslavery
abolition of slaveryenslavement
Forced human ownership
subjugation · human trafficking · forced labor · servitude · involuntary servitude