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abolitionism

abolitionism

1 7.8
A movement that wants to end slavery
  • noun
  • /ˌæbəˈlɪʃənɪzəm/
translation icon : abolicionismo
  • During the 19th century, many activists promoted abolitionism to end slavery in the United States.
  • slavery and abolitionism

This was also the concern of many of the people who were opposed to abolitionism in.

Examples

  • But many things are left out of this account of slavery, among them the crucial fact that, in America, abolitionism began in white Protestant sects deeply repulsed by slavery and was also a tenet of Enlightenment Europe.

    Academic text (1991)

  • A combination of religious revivalism, abolitionism, and mediated Jacksonian populism meant that the Western Reserve was one of the most radical and far-left regions in the North.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Canadian abolitionism had now become the major threat to the Confederate way of life.

    C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2005)

  • Go back to the lesser known works of Adam Smith, you find explicit abolitionism running throughout all of these works.

  • Concord's central place in the history of American intellectual life is due in large part to the abolitionism of its leading citizens.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Lawrencians are made into heroes who stood for abolitionism on the frontier.

    Academic text (2009)

  • It caused those who had been on the sidelines to choose a side, to choose abolitionism or to choose slavery.

  • The doctrine left individual Catholics free to determine the prudent response to slavery and abolitionism.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Generally, the Catholic hierarchy opposed the fanaticism, the anti-biblicism, and anti-Catholicism of abolitionism.

    Academic text (2004)

  • And this is indeed the roots, if you like, of a more radical abolitionism, the roots of what came to be known among the Garrisonians as immediatism.

Synonyms

antislavery
vsabolitionism
3.9

A movement to end slavery

is a formal doctrine or organized movement that advocates ending slavery

Antonyms

slavery
225 4.8

A system where people are owned and forced to work without pay or rights

How Radical

revolution
810 4.1
abolitionism
1 7.8

Surface Forms

abolitionism singular
abolitionisms plural

Morphology

abolitionism = abolition (transparent) = abolition + ism

The noun is formed by adding the productive suffix '-ism' to 'abolition', yielding a doctrine or movement advocating abolition, which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Abolitionism comes from the verb abolish, which comes from an old Latin word meaning 'to do away with'. So abolitionism is the movement to 'do away with' slavery, which is why 19th century abolitionists worked to end the slave system.