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  2. Abolitionism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A small but dedicated group, under leaders such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, agitated for abolition in the mid-19th century. John Brown became an advocate and militia leader in attempting to end slavery by force of arms. In the Civil War, immediate emancipation became a war goal for the Union in 1861 and was fully achieved ...

  3. Abolitionism - Wikipedia

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    Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved individuals around the world. ... During the early 19th century ...

  4. List of abolitionists - Wikipedia

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    William Wilberforce, a leading English abolitionist, led Parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade. Campaigned for the end of slavery in British Empire, dying three days after hearing the passage of the Act through Parliament assured.

  5. Abolitionism Shows How One Person Can Help Spark a Movement

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    Rankin's 'Letters on American Slavery' set out a moral argument for abolition that resonated across the nation.

  6. Abolitionism in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    1787 Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion designed by Josiah Wedgwood for the British anti-slavery campaign. Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United Kingdom, the British Empire and the world, including ending the Atlantic slave trade.

  7. History of the United States (1815–1849) - Wikipedia

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    The abolitionist movement among white Protestants was based on evangelical principles of the Second Great Awakening. Evangelist Theodore Weld led abolitionist revivals that called for immediate emancipation of slaves. William Lloyd Garrison founded The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper, and the American Anti-Slavery Society to call for ...

  8. List of African-American abolitionists - Wikipedia

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    Periods; Timeline; Atlantic slave trade; Abolitionism in the United States; Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period

  9. End of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The practice of slavery in the United States was one of the key political issues of the 19th century; decades of political unrest over slavery led up to the war. At the start of the Civil War, there were 34 states in the United States, 15 of which permitted slavery.