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- That must be the starting point of any abolitionist movement.†
Chpt 2 *abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
- A Cambodian teenager, kidnapped and sold to a brothel, in the room where she works (Nicholas D. Kristof) One reason the modern abolitionist movement hasn't been more effective is the divisive politics of prostitution.†
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- The abolitionist movement would be far more effective if it forged unity in its own ranks.†
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- The New Abolitionists†
Chpt 3abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
- His MySpace page describes his occupation as "abolitionist/student," and his hero is William Wilberforce.†
Chpt 3abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
- In particular, many women have risen as social entrepreneurs to provide leadership in the new abolitionist movement against sex traffickers.†
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- It's a prototype of the kind of alliance between first world and third that the abolitionist movement needs.†
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- That's what happened two centuries ago in the abolitionist movement, when liberal deists and conservative evangelicals joined forces to overthrow slavery.†
Chpt 8
- Winston Churchill suggested that the British people's "finest hour" was their resistance to the Nazis in the 1940s, but at least as noble an hour was the moral quickening in Britain that led to the abolition of slavery.†
Chpt 14
- On the eve of the British abolition of slave-trading, British ships carried 52 percent of the slaves transported across the Atlantic, and British colonies produced 55 percent of the world's sugar.†
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- Sugar production in the British West Indies fell 25 percent in the first thirty-five years after Britain's abolition of the slave trade, while production in competing slave economies rose by 210 percent.†
Chpt 14
- Its example ultimately prompted France to abolish slavery in 1848, inspired the American abolitionists and the Emancipation Proclamation, and pushed Cuba to enforce a ban on slave imports in 1867, in effect ending the transatlantic slave trade.†
Chpt 14abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
- Credit for the abolitionist movement usually goes to William Wilberforce, and indeed he was one of the foremost leaders of the movement and the one who turned the tide.†
Chpt 14abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
- But Wilberforce joined after abolitionism was well under way, and the public wasn't stirred solely by Wilberforce's eloquence.†
Chpt 14abolitionism = the belief that slavery should be abolished
- The abolitionist who overcame that challenge was Thomas Clarkson, who had first become interested in the issue as a student at Cambridge when he wrote about slaves for a Latin contest.†
Chpt 14abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
- His research so horrified him that he became an ardent abolitionist for life.†
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- Clarkson became the driving force behind the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.†
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- That image became the icon of the abolitionist movement, and it underscored an important point: Clarkson and the abolitionists were scrupulous about not exaggerating.†
Chpt 14abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
- That image became the icon of the abolitionist movement, and it underscored an important point: Clarkson and the abolitionists were scrupulous about not exaggerating.†
Chpt 14abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
- It's a useful lesson that what ultimately mattered wasn't just the abolitionists' passion and moral conviction but also the meticulously amassed evidence of barbarity.†
Chpt 14
- In the 1790s, it was common to dismiss the abolitionists as idealistic moralizers who didn't appreciate economics or understand geopolitical complexities such as the threat from France.†
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- As we've said, this movement won't be led by the president or by members of Congress, any more than their historical counterparts led the civil rights or abolitionist movements—but if leaders smell votes, they will follow.†
Chpt 14abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
Definitions:
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(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)