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  Abolitionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 25, 1807.
The Russian emancipation of the serfs on March 3, 1861 by Tsar Alexander II of Russia is known as 'the abolition of slavery' in Russia.
The abolitionism of the mid-nineteenth century was generally close to the era's other influential reform movements, such as the temperance movement, anti-Catholic nativism, public schooling, and prison- and asylum-building.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abolitionism   (1988 words)

  
 Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 2, ABOLITION AND ABOLITIONISTS: Library of Economics and Liberty
Gradual abolition was secured by statute in Pennsylvania in 1780, in Rhode Island and Connecticut in 1784, in New York in 1799, and in New Jersey in 1804.
Abolition of slavery in the Northwest territory, north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi, including the present states of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota, was secured by the ordinance of 1787.
Abolition, with its new elements of effort and intention, was no longer a doctrine to be quietly and benignantly discussed by slave-owners, and from 1830 the name of abolitionist took a new and aggressive significance.
www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy2.html   (3315 words)

  
 Abolition 2000 in the Year 2000
Abolition 2000 sought in some respects to be the conscience of the international community by demanding that Article VI obligations be upheld in the aftermath of the indefinite extension.
Inherent in the name Abolition 2000 is the understanding that we should not cross the threshold into a new century and millennium without a clear commitment to the global elimination of nuclear weapons.
Abolition 2000 has taken a stand on the side of morality, legality, and democracy, and has given a voice to the opinion of most of the world's nations.
www.inesap.org /bulletin17/bul17art09.htm   (1116 words)

  
 Abolition - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Abolition is the act of formally destroying something through legal means, either by making it illegal, or simply no longer allowing it to exist in any form.
C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man purports to be a book specifically about public education, but its central concerns are broadly political, religious, and philosophical.
The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /abolitionist.htm   (280 words)

  
 Prison abolition movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The aim of the prison abolition movement is to eliminate freedom-depriving institutions such as prisons, jails, immigration detention centers, war camps, by promoting more useful and humane alternatives.
Historically, anarchists have played a significant part in the prison abolition movement and this trend continues today.
Their main reason is their wish to eliminate all forms of state control, of which imprisonment is one of its more obvious examples.
www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Prison_abolition_movement   (607 words)

  
 Abolition: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Abolition >> Prominent Abolitionists -- Abolition and Slavery
Although excellent studies of the abolition movement exist, further research in the Library's manuscripts could document the lesser known individuals who formed the movement's core.
On January 1, 1794, delegates from the abolition societies of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland met in Philadelphia, a stronghold of the anti-slavery Quaker religion.
www.loc.gov /exhibits/african/afam005.html   (1558 words)

  
 Yale Law Journal | D. Menschel, Abolition Without Deliverance: The Law of Connecticut Slavery 1784-1848
Some accounts elide the decades between the enactment of gradual abolition laws and slavery’s actual extinction, as though slavery during this period were unworthy of remark because it was in decline.
Second, the Note demonstrates that Connecticut’s Gradual Abolition Act, while central to the decline of slavery in the state, was only one of several legal and extralegal developments that together caused slavery to disintegrate.
Even after the enactment of gradual abolition, slaves remained subject to the wills of their masters and constrained by a slave code, a legal regime that controlled and managed slaves.
www.yalelawjournal.org /archive_abstract.asp?id=281   (1015 words)

  
 Monster Essays: Search results for 'abolition'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The truth he learned about abolition was that it was a white enterprise.
Runaways and the Abolition Movement: The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was the most dramatic protest action against slavery in American history.
Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to the public.
www.monsteressays.com /ccsearch.php?referer=598095&query=abolition   (1170 words)

  
 Security: Other Links to Abolition Slide Show
PSR is proud to announce the release of its new slide presentation Abolition of Nuclear Weapons: The Time Is Now that alerts audiences everywhere of the nuclear dangers that still exist and why the abolition of nuclear weapons is the single most important solution.
Abolition of Nuclear Weapons: The Time Is Now is an educational and action-oriented slide presentation designed specifically for use by PSR members and friends.
PSR members are presenting the abolition slide show at hospitals, Rotary clubs, and medical schools around the country.
www.psr.org /home.cfm?id=disarmament20   (187 words)

  
 PHMC Doc Heritage: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Expressing similar sentiments is the "Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery" passed by the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1780.
The most consistent "opposition to abolition came from German Lutherans and Reformed representatives" from heavily German counties, at least seventy-five percent of whom voted against the bill.
Pennsylvania's Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery was the most conservative of the laws emancipating slaves that were passed in northern states between 1780 and 1804.
www.docheritage.state.pa.us /documents/slaveryabolition.asp   (851 words)

  
 The EU's Human rights and Democratisation Policy - Abolition of the Death Penalty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Abolition of the death penalty is a requirement for countries seeking EU membership.
The EU also presses, where relevant, for moratoria to be introduced as a first step towards the abolition of the death penalty.
In 2002, a call for proposals under the EIDHR was launched to specifically support NGO actions in view of the abolition of the death penalty.
europa.eu.int /comm/external_relations/human_rights/adp   (2221 words)

  
 "Abolition" Defined
ABOLITION - An act by which a thing is extinguished, abrogated or annihilated as the abolition of slavery is the destruction of slavery.
The term abolition is used in the German law in the same sense as in the French law.
The term abolition is derived from the civil law, in which it is sometimes used synonymously with absolution.
www.lectlaw.com /def/a136.htm   (187 words)

  
 Abolition of Income Tax and Usury Party
The Abolition of Income Tax and Usury Party puts great value on our natural environment and has the view that it must be managed and protected for the benefit of the existing as well as future generations in as pristine a state as possible and that the sustainable utilization of eco-systems are a high priority.
The Abolition of Income Tax and Usury Party has the view that illegal immigrants are harmful to our economy and society in general and they should therefore be traced and repatriated to their countries of origin.
The Abolition of Income Tax and Usury Party holds the view that the various models that could be utilized to accommodate and/or satisfy the dissatisfied groups have not been exhaustively explored and that something can be worked out to satisfy the legitimate wishes and aspirations of the affected ethnic and/or cultural groupings.
www.abolishtax.org.za   (16276 words)

  
 Critics' fears about parole abolition fail to materialize - The Washington Times: Metropolitan - January 24, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
RICHMOND — Opponents of parole abolition in Virginia had argued that longer prison terms would increase the inmate population drastically and lead to an expensive prison-building frenzy.
The prison population has increased by nearly 30 percent since 1995, when parole abolition took effect, but the 35,429 inmates is far short of the 49,000 the Senate Finance Committee had predicted.
"Sentencing reform and the abolition of parole did not have the dramatic impact on the prison population that some critics had once feared when the reforms were first enacted," the report says.
washingtontimes.com /metro/20050123-104037-4400r.htm   (1009 words)

  
 Abolition 2000 found Swiftly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Abolition 2000 petition was handed in to 10 Downing Street on 27th May...
Abolition 2000 UK is the only British network whose primary purpose is...
Following recommendations for local authorities by Abolition 2000 Belgium the symposium was closed by...
www.glgbs.org.uk /gay/abolition_2000.html   (333 words)

  
 Abolition
The political abolitionists ultimately failed in their movement because they never provided a clear reason as to why they were rallying abolition.
Although the base of their purpose was religious, they were completely separate from the evangelical abolitionists; this because they believed that the churches were sullied with slavery.
Most of these abolitionists could be found in the “burned-over district” of New York and were the ones most likely to travel with the Reform Circuit and speak in the Lecture hall.
www.wam.umd.edu /~jklumpp/comm460/Bjelogrlic/Abolition.htm   (425 words)

  
 Commonwealth Conservative » Critics’ fears about parole abolition fail to materialize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Washington Times has this piece today on Virginia’s parole abolition — ten years later — and the effect the abolition has had on criminal justice in the state.
Opponents of parole abolition in Virginia had argued that longer prison terms would increase the inmate population drastically and lead to an expensive prison-building frenzy.
Virginia was mighty lucky that those liberal Democrats weren’t in control of the General Assembly to block parole abolition in 1995.
vaconservative.com /archives/2005/01/24/critics-fears-about-parole-abolition-fail-to-materialize   (693 words)

  
 Slavery Links - Web Resources for Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation
A detailed and scholarly chronology of slavery and abolition from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Slavery and Abolition is the most important academic journal in the field.
A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery, Consistently with the Interests of All Parties Concerned (London, 1828), By Moses Elias Levy.
www.brycchancarey.com /slavery/links.htm   (946 words)

  
 African American Odyssey: Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy (Part 1)
In this printed version of his 1791 sermon to a local anti-slavery group, he notes the progress toward abolition in the North and predicts that through vigilant efforts slavery would be extinguished in the next fifty years.
Owned by a series of masters, she was freed in 1827 by the New York Gradual Abolition Act and worked as a domestic.
In 1843 she believed that she was called by God to travel around the nation--sojourn--and preach the truth of his word.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3.html   (1430 words)

  
 Japan: Debating abolition of the death penalty
Among the people who have publicly expressed their support for abolition are a former Minister of Justice, a former Supreme Court Judge, a number of members of the Diet (Japan's Parliament) belonging to various parties, lawyers and academics.
Forum 90 was established in the early part of 1990 and consists of various organizations and individuals who campaign for abolition of the death penalty.
The topics included: the experience of the abolition of the death penalty in France and the worldwide trend for abolition, whether the death penalty has a deterrent effect, miscarriages of justice, public opinion and political leadership.
www.amnestyusa.org /countries/japan/document.do?id=CC0948811585152B802569A600601F47   (3001 words)

  
 Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Continued public pressure is needed to ensure that governments seize the opportunity presented by the end of the Cold War to move towards the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Circulate a petition urging support for the abolition of all nuclear weapons by all states, and ask your MP to present it to Parliament.
Abolition 2000 is an international coalition of citizens' groups that calls for the negotiation by the year 2000 of a convention setting forth a binding timetable for the elimination of nuclear weapons by all states.
watserv1.uwaterloo.ca /~plough/cnanw/cnanw.html   (1110 words)

  
 Abolition.fr -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
APPEAL FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN AFRICA
Africa is on its way to universal abolition of the death penalty.
Of the 53 countries on the continent, 12 have permanently abolished the death penalty, and 20 other countries are no longer carrying out executions.
www.abolition.fr /ecpm/french/petitionscoalitiongb.php?ref=11   (102 words)

  
 1807 Abolition of Slavery Act   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Greenville made a passionate speech where he argued that the trade was "contrary to the principles of justice, humanity and sound policy" and criticised fellow members for "not having abolished the trade long ago".
When the vote was taken the Abolition of the Slave Trade bill was passed in the House of Lords by 41 votes to 20.
In the House of Commons it was carried by 114 to 15 and it become law on 25th March, 1807.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Lslavery07.htm   (311 words)

  
 Abolition 2000 Northern California
Northern California Abolition 2000 is a network of organizations which have signed the Abolition 2000 statement.
These groups also are part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network.
The Northern California network serves as a means to exchange information and encourage cooperation among Abolition 2000 groups in the region.
www.wslfweb.org /abolition/ncal.htm   (241 words)

  
 Part I: The Abolition of Work   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
“Abolition” originated as a speech at the Gorilla Grotto in San Francisco, an “adult play environment,” in February 1981.
Proprietor Gary Warne, who later became a policeman, has denounced the event as the worst spectacle he’s ever staged, and he must have meant it since he later had his goons beat me up.
Anyone who ignores or evades the issue of work itself may well be a “libertarian” (or for that matter a Marxist) but he is no libertarian.
inspiracy.com /black/abolition/part1.html   (199 words)

  
 Influence of Prominent Abolitionists: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition)
One of the speeches in this pamphlet was delivered at a celebration of the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the West Indies on August 1, 1834.
The large woodcut image of a slave in chains was originally adopted as the seal of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery in England in the 1780s and appeared on medallions made by Josiah Wedgwood as early as 1787.
Among his many anti-slavery publications was an entire volume, Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Cause in the United States (1837).
www.loc.gov /exhibits/african/afam006.html   (1149 words)

  
 International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (23 August 2005)
The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is celebrated on 23 August of every year.
The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) saw the beginning of the uprising that would play a crucial role in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is intended to inscribe the tragedy of the transatlantic slave trade in the memory of all peoples.
www.hrea.org /feature-events/abolition-slavetrade-day.php   (451 words)

  
 The abolition of slavery 1833.
They helped in many ways as they organised petitions in towns and cities; the three largest petitions were organised by women and they influenced thousands of people in their own homes to not buy products made in the West Indies.
Women also asked for an immediate instead of a gradual abolition, Elizabeth Heyrick published her pamphlet in 1824 on immediate not gradual abolition.
This was different from the official policy of the anti slavery society that believed in gradual abolition.
www.coursework.info /i/32543.html   (554 words)

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