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 To sum it all up: all abolitionist movements are calling for the immediate end of a legal institution they see as utterly unjust.
+==Slavery==
+The classic example of an abolitionist movement that started out at the fringes of society, but ended up with a historic victory, is that against slavery. To enslave powerless people had been a very widespread practice over the ages and continents, and neither the democracies of the ancient Greek cities, the Roman or the Ottoman Empire would have been conceivable without this peculiar institution. It was only with the European Age of Enlightenment that things took a turn. While there had long been single voices of individual theologians and philosophers questioning the legitimacy of slavery, the 18th century witnessed a growing choir of dissenters, and, more importantly, of collective endeavors aiming at the abolition of first the slave trade over the Atlantic Ocean, and, then, slavery proper. While the first part of this struggle took place in England, the second one shifted its focus to the United States. At the end of that century-long struggle abolitionism had won an outright victory - something that hardly anyone would have believed to be possible at its outset.
 Where do these higher principles come from? Often, they are derived from religion, but they might also be linked to natural law, international law, and/or principles of philosophy.