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Abolitionism
Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
[This entry contains three subentries dealing with abolitionism from the late seventeenth century through the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. The first article discusses the definition of abolitionism as differentiated from antislavery activism, and its forms including Garrisonian and non-Garrisonian abolition. The second article describes abolitionism from the onset of slavery and colonization of North America through 1830. The final article discusses the emergence of Immediatism among black and white Americans and its influence on the debate over slavery.] The terms abolition and antislaveryare often used interchangeably in the modern era, but in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries they had different, and changing, meanings. These meanings were tied to organizational strategies and philosophies. ...
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Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 5121 Includes: The Society of Friends and Religious Opposition to Slavery in the Colonial Era | The American Revolution and the Problem of Slavery | Gradual Emancipation and Colonization | Sources of Radical Abolitionism | Abolitionist Organizations and Activities | Abolitionist Divisions and Slavery in the Territories | Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and the Coming of the Civil WarMajor American reform movement that sought to eradicate slavery in the United States by means of a wide range of tactics and organizations. During the three decades that preceded the Civil War, abolitionism was a major factor in electoral politics. Most historians use the term abolitionism to refer to antislavery activism between the early 1830s, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing The Liberator, and the American Civil War (1861–1865). The term also refers to the antislavery crusade that mobilized many African Americans and a small minority of whites, who saw their goal realized during the Civil War. Historians also commonly distinguish abolitionism, a morally grounded and uncompromising social reform movement, from political antislavery—represented, for example, by the Free Soil or Republican parties—which advocated more limited political solutions, such as keeping slavery out of the western territories of the United ...
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