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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, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).
Anthony Benezet (January 31, 1713 – May 3, 1784) was a French-born American abolitionist and teacher who was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.A prominent member of the abolitionist movement in North America, Benezet founded one of the world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage.
With the growing abolitionist movement in Europe and the Americas, the transatlantic slave trade gradually declined until being fully abolished in the second-half of the 19th century. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] According to modern research, roughly 12.5 million enslaved people were transported through the Middle Passage to the Americas. [ 8 ]
A major theme of her books was human freedom, and her subjects were often American slaves and women. [2] In 1944 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, [4] for which she received a sponsorship from W.E.B. Du Bois. [6] Her most well known book, Let My People Go, focused on the Underground Railroad and the Abolition movement.
Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved individuals around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies .
The history of the United States from 1849 to 1865 was dominated by the tensions that led to the American Civil War between North and South, and the bloody fighting in 1861–1865 that produced Northern victory in the war and ended slavery.
Radical 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 States. Bibliography [ edit ]
The founding of the New York Anti-Slavery Society was a pivotal moment in the abolitionist movement in the United States. The early 1830s saw a surge in anti-slavery sentiment, [9] with various societies and activists working to promote the abolition of slavery. [10]