abolition
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The one great exception to that rule—the abolition of racial discrimination in 1964-65—involved the dismantling of state power more than its imposition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026
Among the proclamations of the first French republic was an end to slavery in its island possessions—a forerunner of wider abolition.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
The abolition law of 1794 was pushed through despite, not because of, Robespierre, and soon afterward he accused his former friends of having passed a decree “whose likely result was the loss of our colonies.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
This has all the technical detail required to formalise the abolition of NHS England and the move of its functions to the Department of Health and Social Care.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
In their pages, spirits were a crazy idea from upstate, like abolition or women’s equality: “There are many queer people and queer things in Rochester.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Vocabulary lists containing abolition
American History I
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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