Plural: abolitionisms
The doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery.
In US and UK history, a movement culminating in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that aimed first to end the slave trade, and then to abolish the institution of slavery and emancipate slaves.
In the US, slavery was officially abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation 1863 of President Abraham Lincoln, but it could not be enforced until 1865 after the Union victory in the Civil War. The question of whether newly admitted states would allow slavery had been a major issue in the breakup of the Union.
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Pokret kome je cilj abolicija, tj. ukidanje nekog običaja, sudskog postupka i uopšte nekog zlog stanja; naročito ranije: pokret za ukidanje ropstva u Severnoj Americi; pokret za ukidanje državnog nadzora i za priznanje prostitucije.