2025年2月9日 · Abolitionists argue that prisons are ineffective, their justification untenable, and their violations of human rights widespread. The abolitionist stance rejects reformism on the grounds that this perpetuates and legitimates the existing system.

The first article discusses the definition of abolitionism as differentiated from antislavery activism, and its forms including Garrisonian and non-Garrisonian abolition. The second article describes abolitionism from the onset of slavery and colonization of North America through 1830.

2018年6月1日 · Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction highlights the key people, institutions, themes, and events that shaped the antislavery struggle across the Atlantic world. Highlighting the activist exertions of abolitionists from the Caribbean and Great Britain to the United States and Iberian society, this short text shows that abolitionism was a ...

Abolitionism is the principle of outlawing the slave trade and the institution of slavery. In the eighteenth century, the intellectual

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廢奴主義（英語： Abolitionism ），又稱廢除主義、奴隸廢除論，是一場以廢除奴隸制度及其奴隸貿易而展开的政治運動，其運動開始於啟蒙時代，並在19世紀推至高峰，也在很多地方得到了大致上的成功。

The impact of abolitionism on African political, social, and economic life over the course of the 19th century varied widely as a result of these multiple objectives. African societies responded to or anticipated abolitionism in different ways depending on their earlier involvement in, or resistance to, the slave trade.

Abolitionism involves political action aimed at enrolling governments and citizens in the suppression of slavery and the slave trade. It happens when people, as a result of their own experiences or their reflections on the experiences of others, come to see slavery as unjust and mobilize to bring about its end.

2024年10月22日 · In this chapter I examine “political” and “philosophical” cases for the abolition of punishment. I argue that far from being complementary, they are in fact significantly at odds with one another. Philosophical abolitionists typically focus on the kinds of intention that they take to be essential to punishment.

a slippery term covering both the movement for the abolition of the slave trade, achieved by an Act of Parliament