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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All labels observed (12)

Label	Occurrences
American abolitionist movement canonical	12
American antislavery movement	3
anti-slavery movement	3
American anti-slavery movement	2
Abolitionism in the United States	1
Abolitionist movement	1
African American civil rights movement (19th century)	1
African-American civil rights movement (19th century)	1
Rochester abolitionist community	1
Underground Railroad network	1
United States abolitionist movement	1
anti-slavery wing of the Republican Party	1

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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 of America ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ Angelina Grimké ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ The Underground Railroad ⓘ surface form: 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	Religious Society of Friends ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ

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Anna Murray Douglass → associatedWith → American abolitionist movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Rochester abolitionist community

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this entity surface form: Abolitionist movement

Wendell Phillips → movement → American abolitionist movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: American anti-slavery movement

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this entity surface form: Underground Railroad network

John Brown’s raid of 1859 → relatedTo → American abolitionist movement ⓘ

John Brown’s raid of 1859 → category → American abolitionist movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Abolitionism in the United States

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this entity surface form: American antislavery movement

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this entity surface form: American anti-slavery movement

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Thayer & Eldridge → associatedMovement → American abolitionist movement ⓘ

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Theodore Dwight Weld → participantIn → American abolitionist movement ⓘ

Henry Highland Garnet → movement → American abolitionist movement ⓘ

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New England Anti-Slavery Society → movement → American abolitionist movement ⓘ

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Osborne Perry Anderson → participantIn → American abolitionist movement ⓘ

Lewis Tappan → participantIn → American abolitionist movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: United States abolitionist movement

Fountain City, Indiana → hasHistoricSignificance → American abolitionist movement ⓘ

Lane Seminary debates of 1834 → partOf → American abolitionist movement ⓘ

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this entity surface form: anti-slavery movement

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn → participantIn → American abolitionist movement ⓘ