Was it abolitition or emancipation that ended slavery?

Answer 1

It was actually the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution that definitively abolished slavery in the United States, so I suppose one could say it was abolition.

Answer 2

Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to free southern slaves - slaves, arguably, who weren't under his jurisdiction since the South had seceded from the Union. The EP was more of a shrewd political move than a principled action, otherwise Lincoln would have also freed slaves in the border states that remained loyal to the United States.

Lincoln wasn't an abolitionist at the start of the war, but had a distaste for slavery. More importantly, he thought maintaining the Union of free states and slave states took priority over any notions of morality concerning the institution of slavery.

In a less formal sense, emancipation is the process by which an individual frees his slaves. Occasionally, slave owners released their slaves during their lifetimes, and other individuals willed their slaves free (manumission) upon their deaths. People who emancipated their slaves were often morally troubled by slavery, but usually they weren't proponents of abolition or any sweeping legal changes to the practice.

The abolition movement argued for the complete elimination of slavery in the United States. Abolitionists and other Republicans pushed for the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which banned slavery. That's what officially ended slavery across the US.

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Answer 3

The abolition of slavery act passed in the House of Commons in 1807 [Wm Wilberforce etc]. Emancipation did not happen until c1830s when the slaves on the island of Jamaica were finally freed.

It has been illegal to own slaves in UK since the Middle Ages.

It is still illegal. So why are the UK.gov doing nothing to end the illegal sex trade?

Answer 4

The tide began to change at first in Britian when William Wilberforce abolished slavery with an act of parliment. It took, however, many years for the full impact of this to filter through in England and the Caribean because the black person still had few rights and economic power, like the average working man he did not have the vote. America followed suit some years later.

Answer 5

The Emancipation proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln both as a political move and as a personal presidential action in which he firmly believed officially ended slavery in all the united states, including those who were in rebellion against the constituted and elected government in Washington.
The term 'abolition' only refers to the desires of pseudo-religious and of worldly political and private organizations to bring about the constitutional rejection of those original and drafted US statutes that permitting the owning of slaves in whatever states had been allowed to maintain such dictatorial tyrannies up to that point in time. At the time of the Civil War and before, the institution had been maintained in the South but no longer north of the Mason-Dixon line--which is why the South was called "Dixie".

Answer 6

Abolition of slavery happened in England in about 1810. In the U.S. not until the Civil war in 1863. Emancipation, in the sense of one person, one vote, finally happened in England in the 1940s. In the U.S. it did not happen until the Civil Rights movement in the late 1960s.

Answer 7

Emancipation frees all who are currently slaves. If I free all who are slaves today, that doesn't free those who become slaves tomorrow.

Abolition says you can have no slaves now or in the future. So it is abolition which ended slavery in this country.

Answer 8

The Slave Trade ended in approx. 1807.

The Abolition of Slavery itself in UK happened academically in 1835.

It was getting too costly with the rise of mutinies and 'rebellions' in the Caribbean and shipping costs.

In USA it was 1865.

Brazil still haven't ended it!

Answer 9

the oxford english dictionary defines emancipation as the act of setting free or delivering from slavery where as abolition is defined as the act of puting an end to something so technically they are one and the same

Answer 10

In the US they tend to mean the same thing.

When you read U.K. sources they may be referring to two different things. The abolition of the slave trade, 1807. (the ban on importing new slaves) and the emancipation of slaves, 1833 (Ending slavery one year later in 1834).