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Abolitionism

Abolitionism was a movement to end slavery and the slave trade, which emerged in the late 18th century and gained momentum in the 19th century, influencing the American Civil War and the eventual abolition of slavery.

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Examples of patriotic rhetoric in American Revolution era politics

in the took many forms—symbolic imagery and mottos, persuasive pamphlets and verse, civic boycotts and associative norms—each designed to bind disparate colonists into a single “American” polity while...