The ideology, movement, or doctrine opposing slavery and advocating for the emancipation of enslaved people.
From antislavery + -ism (suffix forming ideologies). 19th-century term for the abolitionist movement.
Antislaveryism spread ideas across continents through letters, newspapers, and traveled activists—it was an early example of global social movement networking.
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