Αποτελέσματα Αναζήτησης
Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies.
- Abolitionism (Disambiguation)
Abolitionism (capital punishment), a movement to abolish the...
- Charles Henry Langston
Charles Henry Langston (1817–1892) was an American...
- Abolitionism (Disambiguation)
The abolitionist movement was strengthened by the activities of free African Americans, especially in the Black church, who argued that the old Biblical justifications for slavery contradicted the New Testament.
27 Οκτ 2009 · The abolitionist movement was the effort to end slavery, led by famous abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and John Brown.
24 Ιαν 2020 · Discusses the role of the abolitionists, the fight against slavery, and the tremendous impact they made on American history. Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-105) and index.
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.
As the expansion of the US westward created the potential for new states where slavery could be legal, the abolitionist movement took shape, mounting increasing political activism between 1820 and the outbreak of Civil War in 1860.
This essay highlights the literary and artistic movements pioneered by Black abolitionists from 1780 until the Civil War’s end in 1865. Until the 1960s and 1970s, much scholarly work on abolition retold this history from the perspective of those not directly affected by slavery’s ills.
