emancipationists
Anti-slavery activists
Emancipationists were advocates for ending slavery, particularly in the United States and British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries.
The term distinguished those who actively campaigned for abolition from passive opponents of slavery: The emancipationists organized petition drives and public lectures.
Now largely historical, replaced by the more common *abolitionists*.
Those opposing human bondage
- antislaveryOpposing human bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- QuakersPacifist Protestant denomination
- liberationRelease from constraint
reformers · suffragists · crusaders · campaigners · agitators · petitioners · champions · proponents
- Harriet Tubman
- Sojourner TruthAbolitionist and suffragist orator
- John BrownRadical antislavery insurrectionist
- William Wilberforce
Absence of unjust constraint
- liberationRelease from constraint
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- enfranchisementGranting citizenship rights
manumission · unshackling · deliverance · self-governance · independence · bondage · chains · slavery
Public expression of disapproval
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- petitionFormal written appeal
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
lobbying · grassroots · nonviolent · picketing · march · rally · disobedience · advocacy
Before a war's start
- ReconstructionPost-1865 national reunification period
- Thirteenth AmendmentConstitutional ban on bondage
- Fugitive Slave ActLaw mandating escapee return
- Dred ScottAntebellum freedom-suit plaintiff
slave narratives · plantation · abolitionist societies · North Star · Middle Passage · transatlantic · Juneteenth
abolitionists
Those opposing human bondage
- antislaveryOpposing human bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- QuakersPacifist Protestant denomination
liberation · reformers · suffragists · crusaders · campaigners · agitators · petitioners · champions · proponents · allies
Frederick Douglass
- Sojourner TruthAbolitionist and suffragist orator
- John BrownRadical antislavery insurrectionist
Harriet Tubman · William Wilberforce · Harriet Beecher Stowe
liberty
Absence of unjust constraint
- liberationRelease from constraint
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
enfranchisement · manumission · unshackling · deliverance · self-governance · independence · bondage · chains · slavery · oppression
protest
Public expression of disapproval
demonstration · lobbying · grassroots · nonviolent · picketing · march · rally · disobedience · advocacy · solidarity
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Before a war's start
- ReconstructionPost-1865 national reunification period
- Thirteenth AmendmentConstitutional ban on bondage
- Fugitive Slave ActLaw mandating escapee return
Dred Scott · slave narratives · plantation · abolitionist societies · North Star · Middle Passage · transatlantic · Juneteenth
emancipationistsslaveholders
Owners of enslaved people
enslavers · slave owners · slave traders · fire-eaters · plantation owners
emancipationistsoppressors
Those who subjugate others
subjugators · slavers · tyrants · captors · exploiters