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Recent Examples of abolition As a younger man, Jefferson argued for the abolition of slavery and in 1778 drafted a Virginia law that prohibited importing enslaved Africans. Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025 Newt Gingrich, then the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, called for the abolition of the agency in the mid-1990s. Michael C. Bender, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2025 Tubman’s fearless activism led to the eventual abolition of slavery and inspired later generations of civil rights leaders. Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025 However, the reality is that the consequences of slavery and segregation did not end with their legal abolition. C. Anthony Muse, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for abolition
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  • Both judges were also accused of undermining the public’s confidence in the judiciary through their comments to The Capital Gazette and other publications, including a Baltimore Banner column calling for the Orphans’ Court’s dissolution.
    Luke Parker, Baltimore Sun, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The beginnings of the dissolution of dialogue Until 1990, American politics and government was always a raucous and contentious how-do-you-do, but ultimately a cooperative venture to one degree or another.
    Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025

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“Abolition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abolition. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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