ABOLITION - An act by which a thing is extinguished, abrogated or annihilated as the abolition of slavery is the destruction of slavery.
Abolitionism
The death penalty was banned in China between 747 and 759. In England, a public statement of opposition was included in The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards, written in 1395.
Abolition movement
Leading figures of the anti-slavery movement in Britain included the Yorkshire MP William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson (who devoted most of his life to the movement) and the former slave Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa).
"Abolition of dower... No widow is entitled to dower out of land of which her deceased husband died wholly or partially intestate, or in land which was absolutely disposed of by her husband in his lifetime or by his will." ...
Next followed the amendments of the Constitution of the United States having for their special purpose the securing beyond question of the permanent abolition of slavery and the civil and political rights of the coloured race.
Nevertheless, there have been examples of official political censorship, notably in the actions taken under the Sedition Act of 1798 (see Alien and Sedition Acts), suppression of abolitionist literature in the antebellum South, ...
and to cause to be forgotten, a crime or misdemeanor; the latter, is an act of the same authority, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for the crime he has committed. Amnesty is the abolition and ...
 See also: Law, Were, State, Right, Person
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