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Famous Abolitionist Medallion
[[Image:Official medallion of the British Anti-Slavery Society (1795).jpg|right|thumb|250px|Am I Not A Man And A Brother?]]
'''Abolitionism''' was a movement to end the institution of [[slavery]] and the worldwide slave trade. The term '''abolitionists''' refers to those who were actively against slavery, which movement was mainly in the [[United States]] and in [[Britain]]. Among Christians, the movement originated with the [[Quakers]] in Britain and the US around 1750, and attracted mostly evangelicals. The result was that the international slave trade was made illegal around 1810, and enforced by the British Navy. All the northern states in the U.S. abolished slavery 1777-1803, and the British Empire abolished it in the 1830s in its Caribbean colonies and Canada.
'''Abolitionism''' was a movement to end the institution of [[slavery]] and the worldwide slave trade. The term '''abolitionists''' refers to those who were actively against slavery, which movement was mainly in the [[United States]] and in [[Britain]]. Among Christians, the movement originated with the [[Quakers]] in Britain and the US around 1750, and attracted mostly evangelicals. The result was that the international slave trade was made illegal around 1810, and enforced by the British Navy. All the northern states in the U.S. abolished slavery 1777-1803, and the British Empire abolished it in the 1830s in its Caribbean colonies and Canada.