He fought like a fiend for the helpless and oppressed, worked for the abolition of slavery, helped the Quakers and Indians, and worked against the prosecution of witches.

He spoke of his desire to promote the abolition of slavery by peaceable means and he compared John Brown of Harper's Ferry to the John Brown of Rhode Island's colonial period.

His efforts toward the abolition of slavery include issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, encouraging the border states to outlaw slavery, and helping push through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which finally freed all the black slaves nationwide in December 1865.

He first articulated this in 1837, saying, " Institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.

" He closely followed Henry Clay in supporting the American Colonization Society program of making the abolition of slavery practical by helping the freed slaves to settle in Liberia in Africa.

Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed.

Johnson supported the Compromise of 1850 with the exception of its abolition of slavery in the nation's capital.

* 1833 – The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.

The islands prospered economically until the middle of the Nineteenth Century, when a combination of the abolition of slavery in the Territory, a series of disastrous hurricanes, and the growth in the sugar beet crop in Europe and the United States significantly reduced sugar cane production and led to a period of economic decline.

However, prior to the abolition of slavery, Cuba gained great prosperity from its sugar trade.

This began the Ten Years ' War, which lasted from 1868 to 1878, and eventually contributed to the abolition of slavery.

With the abolition of slavery in October 1886, former slaves joined the ranks of farmers and urban working class.

The abolition of slavery in 1834 enabled Dominica by 1838 to became the only British Caribbean colony to have a Black-controlled legislature in the 19th century.

Due to its ambiguity, the letter was a cause of debate during the British and later American struggles over the abolition of slavery.

Evangelicals were also concerned with social reform during this period — in England the Clapham Sect included figures such as William Wilberforce who successfully campaigned for the abolition of slavery.

Douglass wrote several autobiographies, eloquently describing his experiences in slavery in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became influential in its support for abolition.

* In 1999, Yale University established the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for works in the history of slavery and abolition, in his honor.

* 1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U. S. Congress for abolition of slavery.

In this work he depicted a land where there would be freedom of religion-showing a Jew treated fairly and equally in an island of Christians, but it has been debated whether this work had influenced others reforms, such as greater rights for women, the abolition of slavery, elimination of debtors ' prisons, separation of church and state, and freedom of political expression, although there is no hint of these reforms in The New Atlantis itself.

Fedon was clearly influenced by the ideas emerging from the French Revolution especially the Convention's abolition of slavery in 1794-he stated that he intended to make Grenada a " Black Republic just like Haiti ".

After the abolition of slavery in the Portuguese overseas territories in the 1830s, the slave trade definitely went into serious decline.

Cuba rebelled against Spain in the Ten Years ' War beginning in 1868, resulting in the abolition of slavery in Spain's colonies in the New World.

They were joined by many of the free men of color who opposed the abolition of slavery.

The first Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1823 and was committed to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, which was substantially achieved in 1838 under the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

He was also the author of the abolition project in Brazil presented to the Constituent Assembly in 1823.

* Hans Kudlich ( 1823 – 1917 ), politician, main figure in the struggle for abolition of serfdom in Austrian Empire

On October 1, 1823, the monarch decreed the abolition of everything approved during the last three years of constitutional government, which annulled the designation of La Serna as viceroy of Peru.

The first was founded in 1823 and was committed to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.

We think you can only do it by moving forward to a new world — a world of law, the abolition of national armaments with a world force and a world economic system.

In 1852 the isthmus would adopt trial by jury in criminal cases and — 30 years after abolition — would finally declare and enforce an end to slavery.

The 19th century was marked by the emergence of a liberal opposition press, the abolition of guild monopolies in trade and manufacturing in favor of free enterprise, the introduction of taxation and voting reforms, the installation of a national military service, and the rise in the electorate of three major party groups — Social Democratic Party, Liberal Party, and Conservative Party.

After the signing of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, Patel was elected Congress president for its 1931 session in Karachi — here the Congress ratified the pact, committed itself to the defence of fundamental rights and human freedoms, and a vision of a secular nation, minimum wage and the abolition of untouchability and serfdom.

The British Government was adamant in its opposition to the abolition of appeals to the Privy Council as incorporated in the draft constitution — eventually Barton agreed that constitutional ( inter se ) matters would be finalised in the High Court, but other matters could be appealed to the Privy Council.

The Poem of the Man God by Maria Valtorta was forbidden by the Holy Office under Pope John XXIII in 1959, a condemnation upheld in Cardinal Ratzinger's above-mentioned 1985 letter, almost two decades after the abolition of the Index ; but in 2001 Catholic Bishop Roman Danylak, by then a canon of Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and no longer in charge of an eparchy, granted, in his own words, " a letter of commendation, a Nihil Obstat, Imprimatur and a testimonial to this website of a Catholic monk on the writings of Maria Valtorta " ( the website in question being one with the title "— A Contemporary Mystic — acclaimed one of the greatest: Maria Valtorta and her masterwork: The Poem of the Man-God " and in another letter stated that The Poem of the Man-God is, with the other writings of Valtorta, " in perfect consonance with the canonical Gospels, with the traditions and magisterium of the Catholic Church ".

In April the same year, after hearing the news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Martí and other young students expressed their pain — through group mourning — for the death of a man who had decreed the abolition of slavery in a neighboring country.

Debates upon the negative vs. positive impact and evaluation of colonialism and colonization — such as those of colonial Christianization, genocide, third world debt, slavery, abolition of slavery, infrastructures and medical advances — upon the colonizer and the colonized continue to shape global and national politics to this day.

The severe drought of 1877 in the Northeast and the ensuing economic collapse — along with the abolition of slavery in the 1880s — propelled the mass labor migration of emancipated slaves and other peasants from Northeast to Southeast, precipitating the decay of established sugar oligarchies of the North.

He was, however, an active supporter of many popular movements — particularly of that which ended in the abolition of the slave trade ; and he was attached to the political principles of the Whigs.

Whitbread was a reformer — a champion of religious and civil rights, for the abolition of slavery, and a proponent of a national education system.

The British government was unable to extend the abolition via Order in Council to Bermuda, the UK's most autonomous overseas territory with powers of almost total self-governance — but warned that if voluntary abolition was not forthcoming it would be forced to consider the unprecedented step of " whether to impose abolition by means of an Act of Parliament ".

In June 1946 the " Three Times Yes " referendum was held on a number of issues — abolition of the Senate of Poland, land reform, and making the Oder-Neisse line Poland's western border.

As a boy, he worked on his father's farm, attending school for only brief periods, and in 1808-1812 he lived at Wheeling, Virginia ( now in West Virginia ), where he served an apprenticeship to a saddler, and where — Wheeling being an important headquarters of the interstate slave trade — he first became deeply impressed with the iniquity of the institution of slavery, and determined to devote his life to the cause of abolition.

In fact, the new regime seen in full bloom in the book's 2086 came into being in direct reaction to Scudder's attempt to impose Puritanical mores on the entire American society — for example, the complete abolition of the nudity taboo, which is an important aspect of the book's plot.