abolition
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When Parliament debated An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807, the Zorg was highlighted as “a primary example of the horrors of the slave trade,” Mr. Kara writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
Full emancipation for enslaved people in the British Empire, excluding some exceptions like the East India Company, was granted by the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025
Giuliana Perrone, an associate professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, is the author of “Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2025
Abolition of the insulation standards has been a top demand of industry, which says the measures are too expensive and put a further damper on the depressed construction industry.
From Reuters • Sep. 24, 2023
For many years Keith Waterhouse operated an Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe in the Daily Mirror and then the Daily Mail, cheered on by literally millions of readers.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
Vocabulary lists containing abolition
American History I
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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