Abolitionism - Wikipedia Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the political movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved individuals around the world It gained momentum in the western world in the late 18th and 19th centuries
Movement, U. S. History, Leaders, Definition - Britannica abolitionism, (c 1783–1888), in western Europe and the Americas, the movement chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery
Abolitionism - U-S-History. com The abolitionist movement called for the end of the institution of slavery and had existed in one form or another since colonial times; the early case had been stated most consistently by the Quakers
Abolitionists in the United States of America, a story Northern support for ending slavery once a radical position grew steadily Historian James M McPherson defines an abolitionist "as who before the Civil War had agitated for the immediate, unconditional and total abolition of slavery in the United States "
Abolitionism - New World Encyclopedia Abolitionism (from "abolish") was a political movement in late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that sought to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave trade
Abolitionism | United States History I - Lumen Learning Abolitionists used the United States Postal Service in 1835 to inundate southern enslavers with calls to emancipate their enslaved persons in order to save their souls, and, in 1836, they prepared thousands of petitions for Congress as part of the “Great Petition Campaign ”