abolitionist movement
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Brazilian Abolitionist Movement for Animal liberation — is social movement against the exploitation of nonhuman animals, this theoretical and practical approach differ from animal welfare which seeks to regulate this exploitation to make it more humane.Animal AbolitionistAccording to Heron Santana,… … Wikipedia
movement — noun 1 act of moving ADJECTIVE ▪ big ▪ little, slight, small, tiny ▪ The eyes of predators are highly sensitive to the slightest movement. ▪ … Collocations dictionary
abolitionist — adj. Abolitionist is used with these nouns: ↑movement … Collocations dictionary
John Brown (abolitionist) — John Brown Daguerreotype of Brown, ca.1856. Born May 9, 1800(1800 05 09) Torrington, Connecticut Died … Wikipedia
David Walker (abolitionist) — David Walker (September 27, 1796 – June 28, 1830)[1] was an outspoken African American activist who demanded the immediate end of slavery in the new nation. In 1829, while living in Boston, Massachusetts, he published Appeal to the Coloured… … Wikipedia
George Thompson (abolitionist) — Infobox Person name = George Thompson image size = 240px caption = Joseph Ketley (left) with Thompson at the 1840 Anti Slavery Conference. birth name = birth date = 1804 birth place = Liverpool death date = 1878 death place = Leeds death cause =… … Wikipedia
John Rankin (abolitionist) — John Rankin (February 4, 1793 ndash; March 18, 1886) was an American Presbyterian minister, educator and abolitionist. Upon moving to Ripley, Ohio in 1822, he became known as one of Ohio s first and most active conductors on the Underground… … Wikipedia
Quakers in the Abolition Movement — Quakers played a major role in the abolition movement against slavery. The Quakers were the first whites to denounce slavery in the American colonies and Europe. Quakers began denouncing slavery as early as 1688, when four German Quakers started… … Wikipedia
Charles Stuart (abolitionist) — Captain Charles Stuart Capt. Stuart between Thomas Scales (left) and Sir John Jeremie (right) shown in a detail from The Anti Slavery Society Convention, 1840, by Benjamin Robert Haydon … Wikipedia
Social movement — Social movements are a type of group action. They are large groupings of individuals and/or organizations focused on specific political or social issues, in other words, on carrying out, resisting or undoing a social change. Modern Western social … Wikipedia
