abolition
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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
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
The business model hasn’t been applied since the abolition of Denmark’s Sound Toll in 1857, when international powers in the pocket of mercantile interests paid off the Kingdom to provide free access.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
He pointed to a reduction in the longest NHS waits, the expansion of free childcare and the abolition of peak rail fares as examples of delivery by his government.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
It urged the Congress to “take such measures in their wisdom, as the powers with which they are invested will authorize, for promoting the abolition of slavery, and discouraging every species of traffic in slaves.”
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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