André Rebouças Beyond the Atlantic: The Racism and Sociability Network of a Black Nineteenth-Century Engineer by Silva Wladimir Barbosa da, Barreto Maria Renilda

“…He was an engineer, teacher, businessman, abolitionist, journalist, and man of science. His family, intellectual, and professional trajectory was permeated by an extensive sociability network and racial barriers, both within and outside Brazil. …”
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Project Review: ‘Making Room for Abolition’, by Lauren Williams by Aggie Toppins

“…I present common critiques of speculative design—specifically: the lack of attention to race- and class-based struggles, the assumption that time is absolute, and its stance that preferable futures must be plausible—to show how Williams addresses these shortcomings while centering Black experiences and imagination in a dream of abolitionist futures. …”
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Project Review: ‘Making Room for Abolition’, by Lauren Williams by Aggie Toppins

“…I present common critiques of speculative design—specifically: the lack of attention to race- and class-based struggles, the assumption that time is absolute, and its stance that preferable futures must be plausible—to show how Williams addresses these shortcomings while centering Black experiences and imagination in a dream of abolitionist futures. …”
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On Love, the Palestinian Way: Kinship, Care and Abolition in Palestinian Feminist Praxis by Sarah Ihmoud

“…This article centres the forms of kinship and care work that Palestinian women perform within and beyond the institution of the colonial prison in occupied territory through an analysis of letters expressing grief, care and radical hope as material expressions of an abolitionist feminist praxis of decolonial love. Women’s letter-writing practices offer a material expression of the sentient life forms that suture the social fabric of the Palestinian collective, regenerating our connections to each other and to our homeland. …”
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« La quadrature du cercle » des législations sur la prostitution en Grèce dans une perspective comparatiste by Yagos Koliopanos, Alexia Sarantopoulou

“…In the Greek context, this legislation creates a particular scenery where “neo-reglementarist” and “neo-abolitionist” ideologies come to clash with one another.…”
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On Archival Research: Recovering and Rewriting History. The Case of Sarah Parker Remond by Sirpa Salenius

“…Sharing stories recovered from various archives, such as that of the African American abolitionist, women’s rights advocate, and doctor Sarah Remond, generates awareness of the ways in which experiences and the contribution of the marginalized, many of them women, may remain overshadowed by mainstream narratives. …”
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Project Review: ‘Making Room for Abolition’, by Lauren Williams by Aggie Toppins

“…I present common critiques of speculative design—specifically: the lack of attention to race- and class-based struggles, the assumption that time is absolute, and its stance that preferable futures must be plausible—to show how Williams addresses these shortcomings while centering Black experiences and imagination in a dream of abolitionist futures. …”
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Project Review: ‘Making Room for Abolition’, by Lauren Williams by Aggie Toppins

“…I present common critiques of speculative design—specifically: the lack of attention to race- and class-based struggles, the assumption that time is absolute, and its stance that preferable futures must be plausible—to show how Williams addresses these shortcomings while centering Black experiences and imagination in a dream of abolitionist futures. …”
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Project Review: ‘Making Room for Abolition’, by Lauren Williams by Aggie Toppins

“…I present common critiques of speculative design—specifically: the lack of attention to race- and class-based struggles, the assumption that time is absolute, and its stance that preferable futures must be plausible—to show how Williams addresses these shortcomings while centering Black experiences and imagination in a dream of abolitionist futures. …”
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Politics of International Advocacy Against the Death Penalty: Governments as Anti–Death Penalty Crusaders by Mai Sato

“…This article critically examines the narratives of these abolitionist governments that have abolished the death penalty in their country and have adopted the role of ‘moral crusaders’ (Becker 1963) in pursuit of global abolition. …”
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Le projet émigrationniste de Mary Ann Shadd (1823-1893) by Anne-Charlotte Martineau

“…In this article, I examine the life and work of Mary Ann Shadd (1823-1893), a Canadian-American abolitionist, in order to destabilize the dominant historiography of international law in slavery matters. …”
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The Role of Islam in the Abolition of Slavery and in the Development of British Capitalism by Sultana Afroz

“…West Indian historiography, while emphasizing European abolitionist movements, ignores the Islamic unity (tawhīd) of humankind, which brought together many ethnically heterogeneous enslaved African Muslims to successfully challenge the West Indian plantation system. …”
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Holdouts in the South Pacific: Explaining Death Penalty Retention in Papua New Guinea and Tonga by Daniel Pascoe, Andrew Novak

“…However, until 2022, both Papua New Guinea and Tonga were retentionist death penalty outliers in the South Pacific, a region home to seven other fully abolitionist members of the United Nations. In this article, we use the comparative method to explain why Papua New Guinea and Tonga have pursued a different death penalty trajectory than their regional neighbours. …”
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Adressaadi dünaamikast Harriet Jacobsi orjanarratiivis "Incidents in a Life of a Slave Girl ja Eduard Vilde ajaloolises romaanis "Mahtra Sõda" / The Impact of Implied Reader on Har... by Kadri Naanu

“…Their purpose may be to find supporters for the abolitionist cause, to provide the readers with an understanding of the everyday conditions of slavery or serfdom, or to use the past in order to speak about the present, etc. …”
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International reorganisation and traffic in women by Katarina Leppänen

“…The first section maps the abolitionist movement and the abandoning of the term "white slave" in favour of "traffic in women" at the turn of the 20th century. …”
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John Brown, Black History, and Black Childhood: Contextualizing Lorenz Graham’s John Brown Books by Brigitte Fielder

“…Lorenz Graham wrote two children’s books about the (in)famous abolitionist, John Brown—a picture book, <i>John Brown’s Raid: A Picture History of the Attack on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia</i> (1972) and a biography for young adults, <i>John Brown: A Cry for Freedom</i> (1980). …”
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Latin American and Caribbean Sex Workers: Gains and challenges in the movement by Amalia L. Cabezas

“…New challenges to the movement include the abolitionist movement, the conflation of all forms of sex work with human trafficking, and practices that seek to ‘rescue’ consenting adults from the sex trade.…”
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The Attack of the Creolian Powers: West Indians at the Parliamentary Elections of Mid-Georgian Britain, 1754-74 by Gauci, P

“…Their success highlights the possibilities for successful imperial integration in mid-Georgian Britain, although the West Indians could not rely on the same strategies to combat the abolitionist movement after 1787.</p> …”

The politics of change : explaining capital punishment reform in China by Miao, M

“…Drawn from elite interview evidence with penal policy makers including judges, prosecutors, and legislators, the thesis concludes that Europe-inspired, cross-border abolitionist sentiments created motivation for change in China through soft mechanisms of shaming and persuasion, albeit to a limited degree. …”

The Death Penalty in Barbados: Reforming a Colonial Legacy by Lynsey Black, Lizzie Seal, Florence Seemungal, Bharat Malkani, Roger Ball

“…We consider the trajectory of this colonial imposition and the retention of repressive punishments after independence, the Caribbean resistance to international abolitionist pressure from the 1990s and the recent reform. …”
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