Abolitionism

Abolitionism is a movement to end slavery and the slave trade. It took different forms across societies, from organized political campaigns to resistance by enslaved people.

Atlantic slave trade: The forced transportation of millions of Africans across the Atlantic for enslavement in the Americas. Its scale and brutality became central targets of abolitionist campaigning.
Frederick Douglass: An American abolitionist, writer, and orator who escaped slavery and became a leading public advocate for emancipation. His speeches and writings challenged defenses of slavery and pressed for immediate emancipation.
Slave Trade Act 1807: A British law that abolished the British transatlantic slave trade, but not slavery itself. It was a major legislative victory for the British abolition campaign.
Gradual emancipation: A policy of ending slavery in stages rather than freeing all enslaved people immediately. It differed from immediate abolition and sometimes prolonged coercive labor after legal change.
Emancipation: The act or process of freeing people from legal or social restraints, especially from slavery. Abolitionist campaigns sought emancipation, whose legal form varied across places and periods.
Quakers: A Christian movement whose members emphasize peace, equality, and direct religious experience. Quaker communities organized some of the earliest sustained campaigns against slavery.
William Wilberforce: A British politician who led parliamentary efforts to abolish the British slave trade and slavery in much of the empire. His decades of legislative campaigning helped secure the 1807 slave-trade ban.
Slavery Abolition Act 1833: A British law that ended slavery in most of the British Empire, with exceptions and a transitional apprenticeship system. It carried abolition from trade restrictions to emancipation across much of the empire.
Colonization movement: A movement to relocate free Black people from the United States, especially to settlements in Africa. Some supporters opposed slavery while rejecting equal citizenship and advocating Black emigration.
Reconstruction era: The period after the American Civil War when the United States reorganized the former Confederacy and addressed the status of formerly enslaved people. It shows the contested political aftermath of emancipation in the United States.

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