All 7 Uses

abolition
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Some believe that the abolitionists have already made them free, and that it is established by law, but that their masters prevent the law from going into effect.†
Chpt 8 *

abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
He comes home to publish a "South Side View of Slavery," and to complain of the exaggerations of abolitionists.†
Chpt 13
She might object to coming with me; and the damned abolitionists, if they knew I was her master, would not believe me, if I told them she had begged to go back.†
Chpt 25
He said he had travelled through the Northern States and Canada; and though the abolitionists had tried to decoy him away, they had never succeeded.†
Chpt 26
In the course of the afternoon a lad was sent by Mr. Sands to tell grandmother that William did not return with him; that the abolitionists had decoyed him away.†
Chpt 26
The abolitionists talked to him in several places; but I had no idea they could tempt him.†
Chpt 26
He had not been urged away by abolitionists.†
Chpt 26

Definitions:

(1) (abolition)
the act of formally ending a system, practice, or institution -- most often used to refer to the movement to end slavery when no specific system is named
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)