different between abolitionism vs antislavery

English

Etymology

abolition +? -ism.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æb.??l??.??n?z.m?/

Noun

abolitionism (countable and uncountable, plural abolitionisms)

1. Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists. [First attested in the early 19th century.]
   • 1991, Willem de Haan, "Abolitionism and Crime Control", in Kevin Martin Stenson, David Cowell, The Politics of Crime Control, SAGE (?ISBN), page 203:

     Abolitionism is based on the moral conviction that social life should not and, in fact, cannot be regulated effectively by criminal law [...]. As a social movement committed to the abolition of the prison or even the entire penal system, abolitionism originated in campaigns for prisoners' rights and penal reform.

   • 2006, Melissa Hope Ditmore, Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Greenwood Publishing Group (?ISBN), page 6:

     Abolitionism is still a powerful philosophy among contemporary feminists, both in the West and in the developing world.

2. (historical, US) Support for the abolition of slavery.

Related terms

• abolitionist

Translations

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: abolisjonisme

References

Anagrams

• mobilisation

English

Etymology

anti- +? slavery

Adjective

antislavery (comparative more antislavery, superlative most antislavery)

1. (sociology) Opposed to the practice of slavery.

   Prior to the U.S. Civil War, there were a number of northern periodicals devoted to publishing antislavery content.

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