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'''Abolitionism''' refers to | '''Abolitionism''' refers to any system of ideas (and, possibly, a political programme and a social movement based thereon) that urges society and the state 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. | 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. | ||