slavery abolition
Ending forced bondage
Slavery abolition is the movement to end the legal ownership of human beings as property, or the act of formally ending such a system.
The term typically refers to the 19th-century campaigns that dismantled chattel slavery in the Americas and Europe: The slavery abolition movement gained momentum after the Haitian Revolution.
Abolition often came gradually—first ending the slave trade, then emancipating the enslaved, sometimes with "apprenticeship" periods that prolonged bondage in all but name.
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- sugar plantationsFarms growing sweetener crops
- Haitian RevolutionSuccessful slave rebellion, 1790s
- Thirteenth AmendmentConstitutional ban on bondage
slave narratives · Frederick Douglass · moral suasion · Underground Railroad · freedom papers · pamphleteering · Sojourner Truth · civil rights movements · liberation · abolishment · African American heritage · public demonstrations · free soil · American Civil War · grassroots organizing · North Star · freedom · broken chains
- Colonial Cubaindependence movement, Spanish colonialism, colonial rule, Cuban rebels, independence struggle
- Imperial Brazilemperors, empress, imperial army, imperial navy, Second Empire
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- 1800s PeruLima, guano, Cusco, Andes, haciendas
- ConstitutionBill of Rights, preamble, articles, U.S. Constitution, Article I
- Tsarist Central AsiaSamarkand, Tashkent, emirate, emir, khan
slavery abolitionslaveholding
Owning enslaved persons
slave codes · fugitive slave laws · human trafficking · enslavement · bondage
slavery abolitiongradualism
Philosophy of incremental change
incrementalism · amelioration · compromise · accommodation · moderation