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abolition
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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


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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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