In his book The Abolition of Britain Hitchens accuses him of being a " cultural revolutionary " who takes a large part of the responsibility for the decline of " traditional values " in Britain.

* In Britain, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp found the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.

Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, the French colonies abolished it 15 years later, and slavery in the United States was abolished in 1865, after the American Civil War, with the 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

* Hitchens, Peter, The Abolition of Britain.

Two months after arriving in London, Greenhow wrote her memoirs, titled My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington, which sold well in Britain.

He has published five books, including The Abolition of Britain, A Brief History of Crime, The Broken Compass and The Rage Against God.

Hitchens is the author of The Abolition of Britain ( 1999, ISBN 978-0-7043-8140-7 ) and A Brief History of Crime ( 2003, ISBN 978-1-84354-148-6 ), both critical of changes in British society since the 1960s.

* Booknotes interview with Hitchens on The Abolition of Britain, December 31, 2000

* Abolition of the office of " Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain ", generally known as the Lord Chancellor.

In 1965 he successfully piloted the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Bill through Parliament, abolishing capital punishment for murder in Britain and in the British Armed Forces for a period of five years, but with provision for abolition to be made permanent by affirmative resolutions of both Houses of Parliament before the expiry of the period ; appropriate resolutions were passed in 1969.

The Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, which established the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain in 1787, campaigned for an end to the Transatlantic slave trade from Western Africa to the New World, which Britain dominated by then.

The effective date of the Act, January 1, 1808, was celebrated by Peter Williams, Jr., in " An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade ".

The Abolition of Work and Other Essays ( 1986 ), draws upon some ideas of the Situationist International, the utopian socialists Charles Fourier and William Morris, anarchists such as Peter Kropotkin and Paul Goodman, and anthropologists such as Richard Borshay Lee and Marshall Sahlins.

* 1854 May 14 – 15, The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

* 1854 May 14 – 15, The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

: May 14 – 15, San Antonio-The Texas State Convention of Germans adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

The Preamble explains, “ Instead of the conservative motto, ‘ A fair day ’ s wage for a fair day ’ s work ,’ we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, ‘ Abolition of the wage system .’” The IWW embraced syndicalism, and opposed participation in electoral politics: “ by organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old .”

-Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, May 18, 2010, “ From Moratoriam to Abolition of the Capital Punishment-No Justice Without Life ”

“ Niagara ’ s Declaration of Principles, 1905 .” The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

He once challenged William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips to a debate on “ the virtues of the Abolition Party and Political Platform .” On another occasion he challenged Henry Ward Beecher, Edwin H. Chapin and Andrew Jackson Davis to a debate on “ which is the smartest man in all points of view .” In April, 1854, he shared the stage with an all-star cast of eccentrics, including Father Lamson and John S. Orr (“ The Angel Gabriel ”) before an audience of thousands in Boston.

Wright first expressed her plan of emancipation in an article called “ A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States, without Danger of Loss to the Citizens of the South ,” which she published in the New Harmony Gazette in October 1825.

Webster helped found the Connecticut Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1791, but by the 1830s rejected the new tone among abolitionists that emphasized Americans who tolerated slavery were themselves sinners.

* 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

Following the replacement of the Federal Court with the Supreme Court of India in January 1950, the Abolition of Privy Council Jurisdiction Act 1949 came into effect, ending the right of appeal to the Privy Council.

In 1832 Parliament abolished slavery in the Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

In 1832 the party abolished slavery in the Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

After many decades of work both in British society and in Parliament, the group saw their efforts rewarded with the final passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807, banning the trade throughout the British Empire and, after many further years of campaigning, the total emancipation of British slaves with the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.

Other societies that they founded or were involved with included: the Anti-Slavery Society, the Abolition Society, the Proclamation Society, the Sunday School Society, the Bettering Society, and the Small Debt Society.

Although the slave trade was officially abolished in the British Empire by the Slave Trade Act of 1807, and slavery itself a generation later with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, it took until 1850 to be halted in the territories which were to become South Africa.

" The Abolition of Work and Other Essays ," published by Loompanics in 1986, included, along with the title essay, some of his short Last International texts, and some essays and reviews reprinted from his column in " San Francisco's Appeal to Reason ," a leftist and counter-cultural tabloid published from 1980 to 1984.

The province was abolished, along with other provinces of New Zealand, when the Abolition of the Provinces Act came into force on 1 Nov 1876.

It is specifically dealt with by article 1 ( a ) of the United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery.

Now however, in order to avoid upsetting his powerful American friends, he snubbed an invitation to publicly endorse Abolition, sacrificing his friendship with that movement.

At The Parting Of The Ways — A cartoon from the May, 1919 IWW periodical One Big Union, published in Revolutionary Radicalism, shows a worker ( representing the working class ) choosing between an AFL slogan ( A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work ) and an IWW slogan ( Abolition of the Wage System ). Anti-IWW cartoon from The American Employer, published 1913, with the Industrial Workers of the World organizing drive editorialized as " a volcano of hate stirred into active eruption at Akron, by alien hands, which pour into the crater the disturbing acids and alkalis of greed, class hatred and anarchy.

Although it was never completed, Brown planned from 1803 to 1806, with close friend Thomas Pym Cope, to publish a " History of Slavery " using the records of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.

As a long-time foe of the Court of Wards, during the debate on the Tenures Abolition Bill, Cooper supported continuing the excise imposed by the Long Parliament to compensate the crown for the loss of revenues associated with the abolition of the court.

To this end his name is associated with the Fines and Recoveries Abolition Act 1833 ; the Inheritance Act 1833 ; the Dower Act 1833 ; the Real Property Limitation Act 1833 ; the Wills Act 1837 ; the Copyhold Tenure Act 1841 ; and the Judgments Act 1838.

* Abolition of the right to demonstrate with prior announcement ( abolition of distinction between permitted and not permitted )

Through The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, in 1790 Granville came into contact with Thomas Peters, a former American slave who fought with the British during revolution in return for freedom.

In 2012, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ( BUAV ) joined with the New England Anti-Vivisection Society to establish a new international organisation to campaign against the testing of cosmetics on animals — Cruelty Free International.

* Abolition of hand-pulled rickshaws and replaced with cycle rickshaw for improving self esteem