social movement abolitionist movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169390 Any of various movements to end slavery in any of its various forms. Usually used to apply to the end of the Atlantic slave trade and ending slavery in Western Europe and the Americas. However, it may also refer to historical movements attempting to end "white slavery", i.e. the sexual enslavement of white women. abolitionism abolitionist movements international abolitionist movement Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Vol. 1