abolition
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To prevail over his political enemies in Paris, Robespierre, who was nicknamed the Incorruptible, abandoned his principled commitment to the abolition of slavery.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
He indicates how later generations took the Declaration as an inspiration for their own causes, from temperance to women’s rights and the abolition of slavery.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 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
The outright and immediate abolition of the leasehold system in England and Wales would be "almost certainly impossible", the housing minister has said.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
The committee report consisted of seven resolutions that addressed this salient question: What are the powers vested in Congress, under the present constitution, relating to the abolition of slavery”?
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing abolition
American History I
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The American Civil War
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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