abolition
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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
“The abolition of slavery did not come about only because of resistance on the part of the oppressed,” he finds.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 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
Recently, survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb pressed for the abolition of nuclear arms at the United Nations, calling to build a human society free from nuclear weapons and war.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
They could talk about anything they wished, including the gradual abolition of slavery itself, though he felt that Congress was unlikely to take any dramatic action “tending to the emancipation of the 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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