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ab·o·li·tion·ism
 abolitionism
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a movement in the United States in the 1800s whose goal was to free the people who were slaves and make slavery against the law.
Abolitionism became a stronger and stronger force in the years before the Civil War. |
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abolitionist (n.) |
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