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Abstract
<p class="first" id="d3458775e33">The abolitionist movement launched the global human
rights struggle in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, redefining the meaning of equality throughout the Atlantic
world. In the twenty-first century, it remains a touchstone of democratic activism—a
timeless example of mobilizing against injustice.
<i>Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction</i> highlights the key people, institutions,
themes, and events that shaped the antislavery
struggle across the Atlantic world. Highlighting the activist exertions of abolitionists
from the Caribbean and Great Britain to the United States and Iberian society, this
short text shows that abolitionism was a potent social movement that ended the most
profitable institution of the early modern era: racial slavery.
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