A Questão das “Ouvidas”, ou a Disputa entre Autoridades Civis e Militares pelo Julgamento de “Causas Gentílicas” na Angola de Meados do Século XIX by João Figueiredo

“…The broader context will be also considered, taking into special account both the rivalries between abolitionists and slavers, and those between colonial agents either closer to the metropolis or Brazil.…”
Get full text

Fugitive Slave Narratives and the (Re)presentation of the Self? The Cases of Frederick Douglass and William Brown by Lawrence Aje

“…By analyzing the narrative sequencing and thematic choices made in Douglass’s and Brown’s seminal accounts, this article demonstrates that slave authors had little leeway for freedom of expression as they were merely representatives of an ideological cause. Abolitionists instrumentalized slave authors’ lives in an effort to make slave narratives encompassing and representative of slaves’ experiences under slavery - albeit at the expense of absolute veracity. …”
Get full text

Staging a Different Kind of Rebellion: Fighting Racial Stereotypes as Resistance in Slave Narratives by Marie-Pierre Baduel

“…Dehumanization by pro-slavery activists – and even abolitionists – was indeed the main issue black people faced and resisted against. …”
Get full text

De parias à victimes. Mobilisations féministes sur la prostitution en France et au Canada (1880-1920) by Yolande Cohen

“…The reglementation of prostitution in Europe was actively contested by abolitionists, while tolerance was met by temperance movements requiring its prohibition in North America. …”
Get full text

The Town Meeting Ideal and Race in America by Sandra M. Gustafson

“…In particular, the essay focuses on how the black abolitionists David Walker and Maria Stewart used the jeremiad to expand the deliberative rhetoric associated with the town meeting, and it considers Albion Tourgée’s efforts to implement the town meeting system in the post-bellum South. …”
Get full text

The Shadow of Colonial Slavery at Peterloo by Ryan Hanley

“…When the issue of colonial slavery was directly addressed, radicals espoused a range of complex positions, attacking both slave-holders and abolitionists alike. At the rally itself, colonial slavery provided an important but unspoken point of reference for reformers to articulate their grievances with complex, gendered meanings. …”
Get full text

American Philhellenes, Protestant Missionaries and the “Orphans” of the 1821 Hellenic War of Independence: The Case of Christodoulos Evangelides by Smatie Yemenedzi-Malathouni

“…The declaration of the Greek War of Independence and emancipation from the long Turkish enslavement was heralded by enthusiasts, romantics, abolitionists and philhellenists in both Europe and the United States of America. …”
Get full text

Rome and Roman law in English antislavery literature and judicial decisions by Łukasz Jan Korporowicz

“…The argumentation used by the abolitionists has been a subject of many studies. Philosophical, theological or commercial arguments against slavery are well researched. …”
Get full text

La place de la Cour de cassation dans la construction d’un droit aux colonies by Martine Fabre

“…Indeed, on one hand, it took rather "political" positions either by accompanying the conquest, in particular as regards the legal status of the natives or still the implementation of a property right, or by defending theses in opposition with the colonists as in its support to the abolitionists of the slavery (I), but, on the other hand, it was also anxious to make, both, the colonists benefit and the natives of the widest possible social welfare, giving about social laws, the interpretation the most favorable to these populations. …”
Get full text

International and National Law Aspects of the Abolishment of Capital Punishment by I. S. Semyonov

“…However, it will take much time for abolitionists to assure the adherents of the capital punishment that it is neither effective, nor humane. …”
Get full text

Against Care: Abolition and the Progressive Jail Assemblage by Justin Helepololei

“…As progressive jails have been reconfigured as providers of care, abolitionists are confronted with the ongoing dilemma of how to remain a figure opposed to the use of prisons and jails without being seen as against care. …”
Get full text

Towards Community Rooted Research and Praxis: Reflections on the BSS Safety and Youth Justice Project by Uriel Serrano, David C. Turner, Gabriel Regalado, Alejandro Banuelos

“…Building on a Black Radical Tradition, including abolitionists struggles against the carceral state, in this paper, we name <i>CRRP</i> as a framework to describe BSS’s community engaged scholarship. …”
Get full text

Quilting in West Africa: Liberian Women Stitching Political, Economic, and Social Networks in the Nineteenth Century by Stephanie Beck Cohen

“…Artists relied on networks with abolitionists in the United States and local textile knowledge to source materials for their work. …”
Get full text

Konsep Moderasi Pidana Mati RKUHP dalam Perspektif HAM dan Kepentingan Negara by Triantono Triantono, Muhammad Marizal

“…The debate over the imposition of the death penalty has long existed between the Abolitionists and Retentionists. The core problem of the debate is that the death penalty intersects with human rights and the interests of the state in maintaining public order. …”
Get full text

Les mots esclave, nègre, Noir, et les jugements de valeur sur la traite négrière dans la littérature abolitionniste française de 1770 à 1845 by Serge Daget

“…The schematic analysis of the ideology, as it was fully theorized in the 18th century, with no real innovation on the part of the 19th century abolitionists, stresses the main aim of the authors: to take a stand against the subtleties of the supporters of the slave trade by insisting on the remorse arriving from the transportation of man to the inhuman slave compounds in America. …”
Get full text

Assemblage Point: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the American Racial / Cultural Identity Model by Olga Yu. Panova

“…The final part of the paper is a survey of the main stages in African American response since the 1853 argument between Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass that became a matrix for the further polemic, and up to Henry Louis Gates’s subversive “double-voiced” interpretation of the novel which is in full agreement with the tendency to revise the role of white Abolitionists in the antislavery movement and African American history, typical for African American studies in the 1990s–2000s.…”
Get full text

Slavery, banks and the ambivalent legacies of Compensation in South Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean by Graham, A

“…This enabled planters and farmers to ride out emancipation with far fewer changes to the wider societies and economies of the former slave colonies than humanitarians and abolitionists had hoped. …”

Child Care and Carcerality: Reviewing Dorothy Roberts' ?Torn Apart?

“…In keeping with the values of prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionists, this book draws deeply from the experiences of advocates, activists, and those directly impacted by the child welfare system. …”
Get full text

Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation: Creating Public Sentiment

“…The work in the 14 places includes comprehensive research of the region's racial past, and an acknowledgement of that history whether it includes lynching or abolitionists. One coalition's participants vow to explore their personal narratives about others; challenge perceptions about race, race relations and racial equity; end personal roles in perpetuating racial division; elevate views of all individuals; and move forward on a path of justice, dignity, and humanity. …”
Get full text

Pas de mouvement abolitionniste sans nous ! by Gwenola Ricordeau

“…This article focuses on abolitionist movements and relatives of prisoners, in particular in France. …”
Get full text