Abolitionism is a movement to end slavery.
In western Europe and the Americas abolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and set slaves free. At the behest of Dominican priest Bartolomé de las Casas who was shocked at the treatment of natives in the New World, Spain enacted the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in 1542, but weakened these laws by 1545. In the 17th century Quakers and evangelical religious groups condemned sla...
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- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave ,
- To Be a Slave ,
- The Peculiar Institution ,
- Challenging the boundaries of slavery ,
- Inhuman bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World ,
- From Homicide to Slavery ,
- The travels of William Wells Brown, including The narrative of William Wells Brown, a fugitive slave, and The American fugitive in Europe, sketches of places and people abroad ,
- From fugitive slave to free man ,
- The narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave ,
- Anthony Burns
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- Abolitionist
