anti-slavery movements
Organized liberation efforts
Anti-slavery movements were organized efforts to abolish the institution of slavery, most prominently in the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain, the United States, and European colonial powers.
These movements combined moral and religious arguments with political activism, producing literature, petitions, and eventually legislative victories like Britain's Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 and the U.S.
Thirteenth Amendment.
The term encompasses both gradual emancipation efforts and more radical abolitionism that demanded immediate freedom for all enslaved people.
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- Thirteenth AmendmentConstitutional ban on bondage
- Emancipation ProclamationExecutive order freeing Confederate slaves
- human traffickingCriminal trade in people
- bonded laborWork forced by debt
Frederick Douglass · John Brown · emancipation · Haitian Revolution · Quakers · Enlightenment ideals · Harriet Tubman · moral suasion · William Wilberforce · Sojourner Truth · manumission · liberation theology · Underground Railroad · freedom seekers · Abraham Lincoln · American Civil War · grassroots campaigns · human bondage
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