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-Abolitionism refers to a system of ideas (and, possibly, a political programme and a social movement) that argues in favour of the urgent and complete elimination of a legal institution that is regarded as contradicting fundamental values.
+'''Abolitionism''' refers to a system of ideas (and, possibly, a political programme and a social movement based thereon) that urges society to immediately and radically put an end to a social practice that is seen as contradicting the highest values, and, specifically, to prohibit this practice - which until then has been tolerated as a legal institution - for the time to come.
+Abolitionist ideas and movements in history originated mostly on religious grounds. The first of these movements was based in Great Britain and aimed at the suppression of the transatlantic slave-trade. It was soon followed by a movement in the United States aiming at the end of the "peculiar institution" of slavery. Later on, movements against the discrimination of prostitutes, against capital punishment, against prisons, and even against the criminal justice system as such also referred to themselves and were being referred to by others as abolitionist.
-The ideas and movements that called for an immediate end of the slave trade, of slavery, of the death penalty and other repressive legal institutions are all being called abolitionist both by the followers of these ideas and by their opponents.
 This article gives an overview of these efforts in history.