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Chains and Chapters: Abolitionist Networks Across the Atlantic World
锁链与篇章：跨大西洋废奴主义网络
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British Quakers began organizing formal anti-slavery societies in the 1780s, publishing testimonies and lobbying Parliament with moral and economic arguments.
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Olaudah Equiano’s 1789 autobiography exposed the Middle Passage’s horrors and circulated widely in London and Philadelphia.
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In Haiti, Toussaint Louverture led a successful slave revolt that abolished slavery and declared independence in 1804.
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American abolitionists like Frederick Douglass lectured across Britain, drawing crowds and funds while highlighting U.S. hypocrisy on liberty.
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Women’s groups in New England sold anti-slavery fairs and compiled antislavery almanacs to reach domestic audiences.
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French philosophes such as Condorcet condemned slavery as incompatible with reason and human dignity in their Enlightenment treatises.
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Brazilian intellectuals like Joaquim Nabuco synthesized European liberalism with local resistance to defend gradual emancipation.
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Transatlantic correspondence connected activists across languages, sharing tactics from boycotts of slave-grown sugar to courtroom challenges.
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The 1833 British Slavery Abolition Act inspired copycat legislation in Danish and Dutch colonies within a decade.
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These interconnected efforts show how moral conviction, printed word, and cross-border solidarity reshaped laws—and ultimately, human destiny.