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For those who question the political efficacy of social movements, abolitionism is an arresting example of the possible. Beginning in small ways during the last third of the 18th century, abolitionism ...

Author of ‘The Slave’s Cause’ offers an interracial view of abolitionism in talk The story of American abolitionism is often told in a way that discounts the significance of slave resistance in the ...

Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave (1796) by William Blake. Wikimedia/Public domain. The contemporary movement against ‘modern-day slavery’ makes a grave ...

One of the most outspoken heroes of the abolition movement was a former slave by the name of Jermain Loguen, who escaped from Tennessee in the 1830s and eventually became a preacher in Syracuse, N.Y.

A secret society called the Anti-Man-Hunting League was organized by Boston abolitionists in 1854 to prevent black people in the “free state” of Massachusetts from being kidnapped and enslaved. Its ...

International day against violence against sex workers protest in San Francisco (2010). Steve Rhodes/Flickr. (CC 2.0 by-nc-nd). The abolitionist stance on prostitution sounds like a radical position.