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abolition

[ab-uh-lish-uhn] / ˌæb əˈlɪʃ ən /


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But Mr. Popkin has shown how much the abolition debate mattered at every stage of the French Revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers died in the conflict that followed, but the Union’s victory ensured reunification and slavery’s abolition nationwide.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 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

After starting anew, he spent his final decades there, dying in 1810 but living long enough to witness the British and American abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

She enjoyed cultural events and “all sorts and sizes of meetings and lectures” on temperance, abolition, and other social reform movements.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling




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