antislavery movement
antislavery movement:
see slaveryslavery,historicially, an institution based on a relationship of dominance and submission, whereby one person owns another and can exact from that person labor or other services.
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in U.S. history, particularly in the three decades before the Civil War, members of the movement that agitated for the compulsory emancipation of the slaves.
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