abolition
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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
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
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
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
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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American History I
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