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    In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War...
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    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...
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  • Bertram. "American Abolitionism and Religion". Teacher Serve. National Humanities Center. Retrieved 14 November 2019. "American Abolitionism and Religion,...
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    Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery...
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    in the United States Abolitionism Juneteenth History of unfree labor in the United States Slave Trade Act Slavery Abolition Act 1833 Abolitionism in the...
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    and abolitionism Lists of United States public officials who owned slaves Slavery in the District of Columbia Treatment of slaves in the United States Polk...
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    Greensboro The Abolitionist Seminar, summaries, lesson plans, documents and illustrations for schools; focus on United States American Abolitionism, summaries...
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  • The United States Electoral College was established by the U.S. Constitution, which was adopted in 1789, as part of the process for the indirect election...
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    government-controlled systems. Scholar Dorothy Roberts takes the prison abolition movement in the United States to endorse three basic theses: "[T]oday’s carceral...
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    The treatment of slaves in the United States often included sexual abuse and rape, the denial of education, and punishments like whippings. Families were...
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  • on the African heritage of presidents of the United States, together with information on unsubstantiated claims that certain presidents of the United States...
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    federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. The holiday's name...
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    The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime...
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  • In United States history, the gag rule was a series of rules that forbade the raising, consideration, or discussion of slavery in the U.S. House of Representatives...
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    Pennsylvania's An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery of 1780 was the first legislative enactment in the United States. It specified that Every Negro...
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    the United States government and American society at large over whether the one-cent coin, the penny, should be eliminated as a unit of currency in the...
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  • The debate over capital punishment in the United States existed as early as the colonial period. As of April 2022, it remains a legal penalty within 28...
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    organizations Abolitionism: Compensated emancipation International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition Abolitionism in the United States...
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    The history of abolitionism in Brazil goes back to the first attempt to abolish indigenous slavery in Brazil, in 1611, to its definitive abolition by the...
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  • Abolitionism: Anarchy and the Government of God in Antislavery Thought is a 1973 book by Lewis Perry on radicals in the abolitionist movement in the United...
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    In the United States, abortion is a divisive issue in politics and culture wars, though a majority of Americans support access to abortion. Abortion laws...
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  • Before and after the election of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States in 2008, the idea of a Black president has been...
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    In the United States, libertarianism is a political philosophy promoting individual liberty. According to common meanings of conservatism and liberalism...
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    The Libertarian Party (LP) is a classical liberal political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, laissez-faire...
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    abolition of slavery and insisted it was a sin to enslave people. Further, abolitionism meant disunion and Adams was a staunch champion of American nationalism...
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    The Radical Democracy Party was an abolitionist and anti-Confederate political party in the United States. The party was formed to contest the 1864 presidential...
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    In the United States, a common definition of terrorism is the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a general climate of fear to...
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    anti-abolitionism in the topic of proslavery.[citation needed] Dumas traces the beginning of organised British proslavery movement to 1787, when the London...
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    The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of enslaved people who escaped from one...
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