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John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature by Trodd, Zoe

“…Before his execution in 1859, the radical abolitionist John Brown wrote a series of prison letters that – along with his death itself – helped to cement the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom. …”
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Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s by Haggerty, Sheryllynne, Seymour, Susanne

“…Using the concept of imperial careering, it charts how four men from this family not typically identified as enslavers or abolitionists were entangled with enslavement in Britain’s Western and Eastern empires. …”
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Human trafficking from Shari'ah perpective by Mokhtar, Khairil Azmin, Ab Hamid, Zuraini

“…However, despite the achievements of those 19th-century abolitionists, human trafficking has become the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world where the syndicate has obtained about USD32 billion a year through the sale, abuse and exploitation of the victims. …”
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Fundamental framework for strengthening human trafficking victims’ rights in Malaysia by Ab Hamid, Zuraini

“…Despite the achievements of 19th-century abolitionists, currently, human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world. …”
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“It is time for the slaves to speak:” transatlantic abolitionism and African American activism in Britain 1835-1895 by Murray, Hannah-Rose

“…Synonymous with this was their utilization of as many white abolitionist networks as possible. Through the exploitation of performance, print culture and abolitionist networks, black men and women forged a black American protest tradition in Britain. …”
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Slavery in Enlightenment America – Crèvecoeur’s bilingual approach by Still, Judith

“…In fact, he wrote significant abolitionist pieces as well as engaging in abolitionist activism. …”
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In defence of moral error theory and moral abolitionism by Dimmock, Mark

“…On the back of this defence, I then provide arguments in support of the related - but not entailed – Moral Abolitionist account. According to this view, moral thought, moral talk and morally-coloured motivations should be abolished in favour of an entirely non-moral assessment of the world and the options that face us when we deliberate on questions regarding to ‘how to act’ or ‘how to live’.…”
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Remembering slavery on screen: Paul Robeson in The Song of Freedom (1936) by Durkin, Hannah

“…An exceptional visualization of the horrors of the Middle Passage in transatlantic interwar cinema, the production nevertheless recapitulates an abolitionist visual paradigm characterized by lacunae and distortion. …”
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Meat production and consumption: an ethical educational approach by Brügger, P., Marinova, Dora, Raphaely, T.

“…Although welfarist practices may in some contexts be of help, the authors propose the animal abolitionist perspective as the unique genuine foundation for education to build this new paradigm.…”
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Between compassion and conservatism: a genealogy of British humanitarian sensibilities by Pupavac, Vanessa

“…Its development was strongly influenced by middle class evangelical reform circles, exemplified by the abolitionist William Wilberforce. The chapter argues that British humanitarianism today follows Wilberforce’s conservative humanitarian tradition and his anti-progressive views. …”
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"Dusky powder magazines": the Creole revolt (1841) in nineteenth century American literature by Bernier, Celeste-Marie

“…Finally, the conclusion explores the mid-twentieth century version of this revolt, Madison (1956), a musical composed by the black playwright, Theodore Ward, to indicate the importance of this approach for re-evaluating intertextual relationships across black and white abolitionist authors, throughout the nineteenth century and after.…”
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