American abolitionist movement

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political movement reform movement social movement

The American abolitionist movement was a 19th-century social and political campaign in the United States dedicated to ending slavery and promoting the emancipation and equal rights of enslaved African Americans.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	political movement → reform movement → social movement →
aftermath	transition into civil rights activism during Reconstruction →
contributedTo	end of legal slavery in the United States → passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution →
country	United States →
facedOppositionFrom	many Southern slaveholders → proslavery politicians → white supremacist mobs →
hasPart	Black abolitionism → female abolitionism → gradualist abolitionism → immediatist abolitionism → political abolitionism → religious abolitionism →
influencedBy	Enlightenment ideals of liberty and equality → Quaker antislavery beliefs → Second Great Awakening →
linkedTo	emergence of the Liberty Party → rise of the Republican Party →
mainGoal	abolition of slavery in the United States → emancipation of enslaved African Americans → promotion of equal rights for African Americans →
notableFigure	Angelina Grimké → Charles Sumner → David Walker → Frederick Douglass → Harriet Beecher Stowe → Harriet Tubman → Henry Highland Garnet → John Brown → Lucretia Mott → Sarah Grimké → Sojourner Truth → Thaddeus Stevens → Theodore Dwight Weld → William Lloyd Garrison →
notableOrganization	American Anti-Slavery Society → American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society → Free Soil Party → Liberty Party → New England Anti-Slavery Society → Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society → Underground Railroad →
notablePublication	Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World → Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave → The Liberator → The North Star → Uncle Tom's Cabin →
opposedTo	colonization schemes that removed free Black people from the United States → racial discrimination → slavery in the United States →
positionOnSlavery	demanded immediate emancipation by many leaders → some factions supported gradual emancipation →
relatedTo	temperance movement in the United States → women's rights movement in the United States →
significantEvent	American Civil War →
significantPeriod	1830s → 1840s → 1850s →
startTime	late 18th century →
supportedBy	Quakers → evangelical Protestants → many free African Americans →
usedMethod	boycotts of goods produced by slave labor → moral suasion → newspapers and pamphlets → petitions to Congress → political lobbying → public lectures → support for the Underground Railroad →

Referenced by (13)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Anna Murray Douglass ("Rochester abolitionist community") → Lane Theological Seminary ("American antislavery movement") → Wendell Phillips →	associatedWith
Frederick Douglass ("American anti-slavery movement") → Wendell Phillips ("American anti-slavery movement") →	movement
John Brown’s raid of 1859 ("Abolitionism in the United States") →	category
Frederick Douglass →	influenced
Reconstruction Amendments ("Abolitionist movement") →	influencedBy
William Lloyd Garrison →	notableFor
John Greenleaf Whittier →	participantIn
Sydney Howard Gay ("Underground Railroad network") →	partOf
John Greenleaf Whittier ("anti-slavery movement") →	politicalMovement
John Brown’s raid of 1859 →	relatedTo