anti-slavery
Opposing human ownership
Anti-slavery describes opposition to the practice of owning human beings as property.
The term appears most often in historical contexts—the anti-slavery movement, anti-slavery societies, anti-slavery legislation.
Someone with anti-slavery views advocated abolition: Her anti-slavery writings influenced public opinion in the North.
Release from legal bondage
- abolitionistOpponent of human bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- WilberforceBritish antislavery campaigner
- DouglassSurname of famous abolitionist
Tubman · Garrison · proclamation · Quakers · Amistad · liberator · Clarkson · gradualism
Absence of unjust constraint
- liberationRelease from constraint
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- escapeFlight from captivity
deliverance · unshackling · redemption · rescue · fugitive · contraband · maroon · flight
Same status for all
- dignityInnate personal worth
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- enfranchisementGranting citizenship rights
fairness · integration · reparations · anti-oppression · humanitarianism · brotherhood · personhood
Actively pursuing political support
- petitioningFormally requesting action
- pamphleteeringDistributing short printed arguments
- oratorSkilled public speaker
- speechesFormal spoken presentations
protest · boycott · demonstration · march · advocacy · resistance · reformer · agitation
emancipation
Release from legal bondage
- abolitionistOpponent of human bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- WilberforceBritish antislavery campaigner
Douglass · Tubman · Garrison · proclamation · Quakers · Amistad · liberator · Clarkson · gradualism
liberty
Absence of unjust constraint
- liberationRelease from constraint
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
escape · deliverance · unshackling · redemption · rescue · fugitive · contraband · maroon · flight · sanctuary
equality
Same status for all
- dignityInnate personal worth
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
enfranchisement · fairness · integration · reparations · anti-oppression · humanitarianism · brotherhood · personhood
campaigning
Actively pursuing political support
- petitioningFormally requesting action
- pamphleteeringDistributing short printed arguments
- oratorSkilled public speaker
speeches · protest · boycott · demonstration · march · advocacy · resistance · reformer · agitation · leafleting
- social causesfeminism, charity, environmentalism, volunteering, pacifism
- social movementscivil rights movement, women's liberation, labor movement, feminist movement, suffrage movement
- Abolitionismabolitionists, abolitionist movement, abolitionism, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- human rightshuman dignity, civil liberties, right to liberty, right to life, fundamental rights
- Abolitionabolitionists, Frederick Douglass, abolitionist movement, Underground Railroad, Emancipation Proclamation
anti-slaveryproslavery
Favoring legalized human ownership
slaveholding · Confederate · fire-eater · slave power · secessionist