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The 97 pages that link to Abolitionism, each with the reason it gives.

• Harriet MartineauRelated: Her account of American society condemned slavery and connected it to violated democratic ideals.

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassRelated: The autobiography turned testimony about slavery into material for antislavery advocacy.

• Prison abolition movementNarrower topic: Prison abolition draws on abolitionist traditions while addressing incarceration and punishment.

• Sex workers' rightsCompared with: Its goal of ending prostitution differs from rights-based demands centered on workers' agency and protections.

• Cesare BeccariaRelated: Beccaria’s critique became an enduring reference for campaigns against executions.

• Criminalization of sex workRelated: Abolitionist policies commonly support buyer penalties as a route to ending prostitution.

• East African slave tradeRelated: Abolitionist pressure shaped the treaties and campaigns directed at East African trading centers.

• Josephine ButlerRelated: Butler drew on abolitionist language to describe regulated prostitution as sexual slavery.

• Political pamphletRelated: Abolitionists used pamphlets to expose slavery and argue for its immediate or eventual abolition.

• Epistle to PhilemonCompared with: Abolitionists later cited Paul’s language of kinship, while critics noted that he does not explicitly demand emancipation.

• Legal historyRelated: Its campaigns drove legal prohibitions while exposing conflicts between law and justice.

• LibertyRelated: Abolitionist struggles challenged systems that denied liberty through ownership and forced labor.

• Lyman BeecherCompared with: Beecher’s gradualist colonization sympathies contrasted with abolitionists’ demand to end slavery immediately.

• PolygenismCompared with: Abolitionists challenged racial arguments used to defend slavery, including polygenism.

• Richard AllenNarrower topic: Allen’s public work opposed slavery and supported Black freedom.

• Victor SchœlcherNarrower topic: Schœlcher’s political legacy belongs to a wider, international struggle against slavery.

• Arthur KoestlerNarrower topic: His campaign against the death penalty connected his public writing to abolitionist activism.

• History of feminismRelated: Abolitionist activism trained organizers and exposed conflicts over women’s political participation.

• Lysander SpoonerNarrower topic: Spooner’s legal and political writing developed in the struggle against American slavery.

• Phillis WheatleyRelated: Wheatley’s demonstrated authorship was invoked in arguments about Black intellectual capacity and slavery.

• Antebellum SouthCompared with: Abolitionists challenged the institution on which Southern wealth and political power depended.

• Elizabeth Barrett BrowningRelated: Her poem “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” confronts slavery and racial violence.

• 18th centuryRelated: Organized opposition to the slave trade grew across the Atlantic world in this century.

• History of IdeasBroader topic: Abolitionism shows ideas about liberty and human equality becoming organized political action.

• John Graves SimcoeCompared with: Simcoe’s limited antislavery measure is distinct from the later movement for complete abolition.

• Servile WarsCompared with: Modern antislavery movements later recast Spartacus as a symbol of resistance to bondage.

• Theodore Dwight WeldNarrower topic: Weld’s organizing and writing belonged to the immediate-emancipation wing of this broader movement.

• William Ellery ChanningRelated: His antislavery writings brought Unitarian moral reasoning into arguments over emancipation.

• History of human rightsRelated: Abolitionists exposed the contradiction between universal rights claims and slavery.

• History of slaveryRelated: Its campaigns challenged slave systems through organizing, testimony, revolt, and legislation.

• History of the AmericasRelated: Abolitionist campaigns challenged an institution that had shaped societies throughout the hemisphere.

• Human brandingRelated: Opposition to slavery challenged the coercive systems in which bodily marking operated.

• PenologyCompared with: It challenges whether the institutions penology studies should exist at all.

• White peopleRelated: Abolitionist movements challenged racial orders that treated white supremacy and slavery as legitimate.

• 19th centuryRelated: Abolition campaigns and emancipation laws changed societies across the Atlantic world.

• Barry UnsworthRelated: Abolitionist arguments shape the moral conflicts in Sacred Hunger and The Quality of Mercy.

• DrapetomaniaRelated: Abolitionist opposition rejected the moral and political premises behind proslavery medical claims.

• Enlightenment philosophyRelated: Universal claims about liberty and human equality supplied arguments against enslavement.

• George FitzhughCompared with: Fitzhugh rejected abolitionists’ claims that slavery violated human liberty.

• History of democracyRelated: Abolitionist campaigns forced democratic societies to confront slavery's denial of equal citizenship.

• History of ethicsRelated: Its arguments tested claims about liberty, personhood, and moral equality.

• History of liberalismRelated: Abolitionists used claims of liberty and equal personhood against slavery’s exclusions.

• John Greenleaf WhittierNarrower topic: Whittier’s poems and journalism helped carry abolitionist arguments to a broad public.

• Natural rights and legal rightsRelated: Abolitionists invoked human equality against laws that treated people as property.

• Penal labourRelated: Antislavery politics shaped disputes over whether prison labor reproduced forms of coerced labor.

• Raul PompeiaRelated: Pompeia used public writing to support abolition during the final years of Brazilian slavery.

• Sex industryRelated: Its analysis treats prostitution as exploitation to be dismantled, unlike sex-worker-rights frameworks.