antislavery
Opposing human ownership
Antislavery describes opposition to the practice of slavery.
The term applies to movements, activists, and legislation aimed at abolishing slavery or preventing its spread: antislavery societies, antislavery sentiment in the North.
In American history, antislavery distinguished those who opposed slavery's expansion from outright abolitionists who demanded immediate emancipation.
Release from legal bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- abolitionistOpponent of human bondage
- GarrisonName from military term
- DouglassSurname of famous abolitionist
Tubman · Stowe · Quakers · thirteenth · amendment · proclamation · Lincoln · reformers
Release from legal bondage
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
- equalitySame status for all
- citizenshipStatus as state member
suffrage · dignity · humanity · enfranchisement · self-determination · personhood · constitution · legislation
Formal written appeal
- pamphletUnbound topical booklet
- rallyGathering for a cause
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- lectureEducational spoken presentation
oration · advocacy · campaign · protest · demonstration · march · resistance · lobbying
Historic North-South boundary
- AmistadHistoric maritime captive revolt
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
emancipation
Release from legal bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- abolitionistOpponent of human bondage
- GarrisonName from military term
Douglass · Tubman · Stowe · Quakers · thirteenth · amendment · proclamation · Lincoln · reformers · liberator
emancipation
Release from legal bondage
citizenship · suffrage · dignity · humanity · enfranchisement · self-determination · personhood · constitution · legislation · inalienable
petition
Formal written appeal
lecture · oration · advocacy · campaign · protest · demonstration · march · resistance · lobbying · agitation
Mason-Dixon
Historic North-South boundary
- AmistadHistoric maritime captive revolt
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
- Free Soil
- Abolitionismabolitionists, abolitionist movement, abolitionism, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman
- Abolitionabolitionists, Frederick Douglass, abolitionist movement, Underground Railroad, Emancipation Proclamation
- Antebellum Americaantebellum era, Compromise of 1850, sectionalism, states' rights, Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Antebellum Politicsmanifest destiny, states' rights, nullification, secession, sectionalism
- Slavery Historyabolitionism, abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, Emancipation Proclamation, Harriet Tubman
antislaveryproslavery
Favoring legalized human ownership
slavery · slaveholding · enslavement · Confederate · secessionist
- antislavery movementCampaign against human bondage
slave, slavery, slaves, enslave, slavish, enslaved, enslavement, slaver, slavishly