abolitionisme ; slavesagen

Latin: Afskaffelse; ophævelse. Også anti-slaveribevægelsen i USA og England, eksempelvis organiseret i verdens første menneskerettigheds­gruppe the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage, grundlagt af Anthony Benezet i 1775 og The American Anti-Slavery Society, grundlagt i 1833 af William Lloyd Garrison. Også politisk parti i USA i perioden 1775-1870. Senere grundlægges New England Non-Resistance Society.
I London grundlægger engelske kvækere the Anti-Slavery Society.
Første lovgivning mod slaveri i Pennsylvania i 1780.
Blandt tidlige slaverimodstandere kan, ud over Anthony Benezet, nævnes kvækerne, James G. Birney, Moses Brown, Frederick Douglass, Elisabeth Fry, Samuel Hopkins, the Hutchinson Family Singers, Benjamin Lay, Ralph Sandiford, Granville Sharp, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, John Woolman, samt Robert Carter III, Lydia Maria Child, William Whipper og William Wilberforce.
Blandt danske slaverimodstandere kan nævnes: Grundtvig.
Se også: African-Caribbean Reparations and Resettlement Alliance ; Anti-Slavery International ; jubelsang ; National Assiciation for the Advancement of Colored People ; the Underground Railroad.

Litteratur

Alexander, G. W.: Om den moralske Forpligtigelse til og det Hensigtsmæssige af Strax og fuldstændigt at ophæve Slaveriet i de dansk-vestindiske Kolonier. - Købenahvn : Studenterforeningen, 1843. - 27 s.
Benezet, Anthony: A caution to Great Britain and her colonies.
http://www.archive.org/details/cautiontogreatbr00benerich
Benezet, Anthony: Observations on the inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes : With some advice thereon, extracted from the Epistle of the yearly-meeting of the people called Quakers held at London in the year 1748. - Germantown : 1760.
Benezet, Anthony: Some Historical Account of Guinea … With an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave-trade … Also a republication of the sentiments of several authors of note on this interesting subject; particularly an extract of a treatise by Granville Sharp. - Philadelphia : Joseph Crukshank, 1771. - 144 s.
Benezet, Anthony: A short account of that part of Africa, inhabited by the Negroes : With respect to the fertility of the country; the good disposition of many of the natives, and the manner by which the slave trade is carried on. (in the year MDCCLXII. [1762])
- Philadelphia: : Printed by W. Dunlap, MDCCLXII. [1762]
http://www.archive.org/details/shortaccountofth00benerich
Bugge, K. E.: Grundtvig og slavesagen. Århus Universitetsforlag, 2003.
Fredrickson, George M.: The Long Trek to Freedom.
The New York Review of Books, Volume 52, Number 12, Thursday, July 14, 2005.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18121
Hochschild, Adam: How the British Inspired Dr. King's Dream.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/17/opinion/17hochschild.html
Lay, Benjamin: All Slave-Keepers that Keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates, etc. 1737.
Sandiford, Ralph: A Brief Examination of the Practice of the Times. 1729.
Sewall, Samuel: The Selling of Joseph. 1700.
Tolstoy, Leo: The slavery of our times. 1900.
Wesley, John: Thoughts on Slavery. 1774.
Woolman, John: Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes. 1754.


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