abolitionist movements
End-bondage crusades collectively
Abolitionist movements are organized efforts to end a practice considered unjust or inhumane.
The term most commonly refers to 18th- and 19th-century campaigns to abolish slavery, particularly in Britain and the United States.
Modern usage extends to movements seeking to abolish prisons, the death penalty, or other institutions: The abolitionist movement has gained traction among criminal justice reformers.
- slave narrativeEnslaved person's autobiographical account
- lecture circuitTraveling speaker's scheduled stops
- American Civil War1861-1865 U.S. conflict
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
- freedom papersLegal proof of emancipation
Frederick Douglass · Harriet Tubman · Haitian Revolution · human rights · petitions · Emancipation Proclamation · broken chains · boycotts · Dred Scott decision · equality · civil disobedience · manumission · Quakers · Fugitive Slave Act · free soil · grassroots organizing · liberation theology · moral suasion
abolitionist movementsslave power
Enslaver political influence
abolitionist movementsconservatism
Preference for existing institutions
abolitionist movementssubjugation
Forcing into submission
enslavement · domination · colonialism · imperialism · segregationism