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What does abolitionism mean?

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Noun
  1. An opinion in favor of the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists. [First attested in the early 19th century.]
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In the same year, she was introduced to abolitionism at a utopian community in Northampton, Massachusetts, and thereafter spoke in behalf of the movement throughout the state.
There is a worse evil than abolitionism, and that is the suppression of it by lawless force.
It is the sole ground for the existence of abolitionism, a modern, humanist and progressive idea.
Finney turned revivalism into a science, but he also turned thousands of his converts into foot soldiers for abolitionism.
At the beginning, too, I suppose that his taking up abolitionism made him enemies.
Since its creation over a century ago abolitionism partakes in the struggle for the respect of human rights.

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