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1. In Scotland the abolition of all services not precisely stipulated in the lease, has, in the course of a few years, very much altered for the better the condition of the yeomanry of that country
2. If to this saving, which would alone be very considerable, were added the abolition of all bounties upon the exportation of home produce ; in all cases in which those bounties were not in reality drawbacks of some duties of excise which had before been advanced ; it cannot well be doubted, but that the neat revenue of customs might, after an alteration of this kind, be fully equal to what it had ever been before
3. became an outspoken advocate of abolition of slavery in
4. To deliver themselves from this subjection to their creditors, the poorer citizens were continually calling out, either for an entire abolition of debts, or for what they called new tables ; that is, for a law which should entitle them to a complete acquittance, upon paying only a certain proportion of their accumulated debts
5. For even young schoolchildren know about abolitionists
6. The US international slave trade was abolished by Jefferson and Congress in 1807, though an internal slave trade continued until abolition
7. Plantation slave owners, or “the slave owning power,” as many abolitionists referred to them, likely played the leading role in why the US fought the war
8. White supremacists and Confederate apologists have long blamed abolitionists or the United States (i
9. Ian ―John Brown‖ O‘Connor‘s column, ―Stars need to answer Stewart‘s call to action‖, another in a long line of racial hyperboles consistent with his obsessive railings against the White Community; White Males in particular, resonates with the temper of nineteenth century Abolitionism
10. He became a Democratic Senator, and when Tennessee seceded, he spoke against it, but also against abolitionists
11. When Lincoln ran for re election in 1864, he chose Johnson to replace Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, a Republican abolitionist from Maine
12. Johnson defied Congress and fired Secretary of War Stanton, who had been appointed by Lincoln and was a dedicated abolitionist
13. In spite of Johnson, Congress, Union generals, abolitionists, the Freedmen's Bureau, and newly freed Blacks exercising their civil rights could point to some accomplishments
14. The law favored slave owners against abolitionists, forcing all northerners to return fugitive slaves, no matter what the state laws were or the personal beliefs of abolitionists
15. Fillmore also pushed for New Mexico Territory to be open to slavery, even sending federal troops to the territory to pressure abolitionists in Congress
16. The Abolitionist movement had been around in the US since colonial times
17. The passage of the slave trade ban was the high point of abolitionism until the Civil War
18. In Cuba and Brazil, the slave trade continued illegally right up to the time of abolition
19. Yet by a mixture of eloquence, political skill, and canny coalition building, Lincoln united Congress and elements of the US public, from Abolitionist churches to German free thinking radicals to free Blacks to working class southern whites
20. Racists, both white and Black, often spread lies about Lincoln's abolitionism, as do others
21. At the start of the war Lincoln feared trying to emancipate all slaves would alienate the border states and large parts of the north hostile or indifferent to abolitionism
22. Emancipation also ended any chance for the Confederacy to ever get recognition from other nations, for abolition was already a fact in most of Europe and Latin America and as appealing to the masses of ordinary people as it was hated by elites
23. US soldiers were far more abolitionist than the general public
24. The general pattern became; abolitionist young men joined the military; or they became abolitionists after seeing slavery firsthand in the south; soldiers then tried to win their family and friends to the abolitionist cause in their letters; upon returning home, veterans pushed anti slavery beliefs even more to those they knew
25. In Louisiana, Lincoln had ordered not just abolition but the vote for Blacks and free education
26. Abolitionist writings were punished with death or exile
27. What about the US in the aftermath of the Civil War, under McClellan? How would he handle Reconstruction? McClellan truly hated abolitionists and had racist opinions of both Blacks and Mexicans as far back as the US-Mexico War
28. Abolition of the Bible - Government is censoring the Bible from the
29. Besides, the issue went away with the Thirteenth Amendment and the abolition of slavery…except for the poll taxes and other shenanigans promoted mainly by one of our political parties
30. abolitionist, opposed the policies of the slaveholding president
31. That had been a common practice ever since the Civil War and the abolition of slavery a century earlier
32. The prophecy of Lewis is that man’s “final conquest” will prove to be “the abolition of Man
33. Republicans trace their heritage back the Civil War, and the abolition of slavery by Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863
34. It may well be, as one observer has said, that Budziszewski “fills out the progression from the denial of natural law to the abolition of man in clear and easy-to-follow steps
35. The abolition of private ownership of land and application
36. , state) schools, along with the abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form and the practice of combining education with industrial production, and other things
37. complete abolition of private property and the disappearance of the state but instead envisioned Socialism more as a form of society in which fully democratic control would be exercised over wealth, and production would be controlled by a group of responsible experts
38. revolutionary agenda, that fulfilling the promise of equality would require not merely the abolition of feudal titles and privileges, but the intitution of a new way of economic life, in which individual
39. He was better suited to follow the dictates that came down to his municipality, after the abolition of the monarchy, to conduct a ritual purging of “the signs of ancient servitude
40. Out of the desire to prepare for God’s kingdom grew movements such as temperance, prison reform, better care for mentally ill, and increasingly, abolition of slavery
41. ” Another blow against the family is the abolition of inheritance
42. ) Following the abolition of class is the abolition of the State
43. What does remain is the spirit of aggressive righteousness as manifested by the abolitionists and the prohibitionists
44. The abolition of serfdom in Europe was effective because the son of a serf could
45. The cause itself was as compelling as had been abolition as a cause
46. To them, the Brinks robbery was a revolutionary act because it was the first time since the abolitionist John Brown attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, that white and blacks had physically fought together on the same side as an integrated unit
47. ” The abolition would also preclude enhanced penalties for merely “regular” crime that has a “hate” component
48. •Abolition 2000 (nuclear testing) [93]
49. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes
50. God as his Father, which He is, we remember His many blessings – the forgiveness of sins, the abolition of
