ABSTRACT
ABOLITION A movement to end the practice of slaveholding and free all slaves in the United States. It was but one of the remedies suggested for ending the “peculiar institution,” as SLAVERY was called. Other solutions included ending the slave trade (the importation of new slaves from Africa) but not the practice of slavery, limiting the spread of slavery in the territories, prohibiting slavery in any new state joining the Union, and repatriating the existing slaves to a new country in Africa or elsewhere.
