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abolition History 1. (in British territories) the ending of the slave trade (1807) or the ending of slavery (1833): accomplished after a long campaign led by William Wilberforce 2. (in the US) the emancipation of the slaves, accomplished by the Emancipation Proclamation issued in 1863 and ratified in 1865 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| On the consumer politics of the abolition movement see Clare
Midgley, "Slave Sugar Boycotts, Female Activism and the Domestic
Base of British Anti-Slavery Culture," Slavery and Abolition, 17/3
(1996): 137-62; Charlotte Sussman, Consuming Anxieties. One simply cannot correctly understand
the American abolition movement or the movements for suffrage, labor,
public health, birth control, civil liberties, civil rights, sexual
freedom, peace, or ecology (among others) without understanding the
freethought movement. Fanuzzi suggests that Garrison
deliberately sought to shape the abolition movement on his own and to
make abolitionists be perceived not merely as outcasts from "the
domain of citizenship, but criminals of the state. |
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