Abolition (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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  1. the act of abolishing or the state of being abolished: the abolition of war;the abolition of capital punishment;the abolition of unfair taxes.
  2. the legal prohibition of slavery, especially the institutional enslavement of Black people in the U.S.
noun
  1. the act of abolishing or the state of being abolished; annulment
  2. (in British territories) the ending of the slave trade (1807) or the ending of slavery (1833): accomplished after a long campaign led by William Wilberforce
  3. (in the US) the emancipation of the slaves, accomplished by the Emancipation Proclamation issued in 1863 and ratified in 1865
Abolition (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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