abolitionismn.
/ˌabəˈlɪʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˌabəˈlɪʃənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌæbəˈlɪʃəˌnɪz(ə)m/ The beliefs, principles, or activities of abolitionists; esp. (usually in form Abolitionism) (chiefly U.S. History) belief in or support for the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of African slaves.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from slavery > abolition of slavery > principles of
abolitionism1807
immediatism1835
free-soilism1848
man-and-brotherism1865
1807 Christian Observer Dec. 806 Mr. Corry was sufficiently acute to perceive that the cant of gradual abolitionism was necessary, in the present state of public opinion, even to his obtaining a patient hearing.
1808 W. Wilberforce Let. in R. I. Wilberforce & S. Wilberforce Life W. Wilberforce (1838) III. xxii. 385 With a view to having the Spanish deputies well impregnated with Abolitionism.
1834 Southern Literary Messenger 1 87 In two years abolitionism will be as prostrate as anti-masonry is now.
1853 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Homes of New World III. 344 Violent abolitionism is more and more giving place to a nobler and calmer spirit.
1860 Sat. Rev. No. 255. 340/2 Even in the Free States Abolitionism is not quite safe.
1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 73 Tainted with Free-soilism or Abolitionism.
1914 Times 10 Apr. 10/4 The general subject which will be before the gathering is the constructive policy of abolitionism, and emphasis will be laid on the responsibility of the individual in matters of conduct and health.
1973 D. Aaron Unwritten War iv. xi. 167 Abolitionism or Black Republicanism, to the South Carolinian, one and the same thing.
1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 115 The Fugitive Slave Act, met with such organized and well-publicized resistance in the North..that it was more successful in gaining converts to abolitionism than in recovering runaway slaves.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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