Abolitionism

"I, John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."

File:JohnBrown.png John Brown

Abolitionism or Anti-Slavery is a File:Nonquadrant.png non-quadrant political ideology that is against File:Slavery.png slavery. According to this philosophy, all people, regardless of their ethnic origin, are free and should not be at the mercy of other people.

History

WIP

Beliefs

Abolitionism, as already mentioned, opposes File:Slavery.png slavery and believes that it would be something inhuman, as it believes that humans are born free. It is File:Cultcenter.png culturally ambiguous, as there are as many File:Conservative.png conservative abolitionists as there are File:Prog-u.png progressives, although most slave regimes are File:InfReactionaryism.png culturally reactionary. Most oppose File:Colonial.png colonialism and File:Racism.png racism, because of slavery in the File:PanAmer.png Americas and File:Cball-AfricanUnion.png Africa, with many (especially in Latin America and Africa) associating abolitionism with File:Antiimp.png anti-imperialism, although there is debate about this. Abolitionism was influenced by File:Enlightenment.png Enlightenment and File:Clib.png Classic Liberal ideals ( Adam Smith, File:JohnLocke.png John Locke (debated), File:Garfield.png James Garfield and others) and by some Judeo-Christian examples. Abolitionism is also economically neutral, as the only economic position in fact is opposition to the slave economy, which can range from socialist to capitalist.

Abolitionism has been fused with both File:LeftAbolition.png left-wing and File:RightAbolition.png right-wing theory. File:LeftAbolition.png Leftist abolitionists believe Capitalism has allowed and in large-part originated in File:Slavery.png slavery in the past and will enable slavery in the future, while comparing modern-day working conditions to slave labor, trapping people in poverty. File:RightAbolition.png Rightist abolitionists on the other hand hold that the File:Markets.png free market and liberal ideas are necessary for the abolition of slavery and compare slavery to conditions in Marxist-Leninist countries such as File:Cball-USSR.png The Soviet Union and File:NeoComBall.png other Warsaw Pact members.

Abolitionism has a complicated relationship with File:Religious.png religion. Christian institutions have historically been used to defy prejudice and slavery while in other times being used to justify it. File:Augustinianism.png Saint Augustine described it as resulting from sin and many of the first abolitionist organisations and activists were Christian, such as File:JohnBrown.png John Brown. Other examples of historical Christian opposition to slavery could be:

• File:Moses.png Moses freeing the Hebrew people
• Deuteronomy 23:15-16
• Isaiah 58:6-9
• Quakers
• Pope Benedict XIV, Pius VII, File:Pius IX.png Pius IX, Gregory XVI and File:LeoXIII.png Leo XIII

Slavery and File:IslamicAbolition.png abolitionism are also an extensive topic within Islam. Throughout history, many Muslim states practiced slavery with the first country to abolish slavery being File:Cball-Tunisia.png Tunisia, closely followed by File:Cball-Ottomanism.png The Ottoman Empire. The Qu'ran itself speaks in length on slavery, and slavery was a key part of the early Arabic world. Many prophets oppose slavery using intepretations from the Qu'ran, such as the condemnation of anyone who enslaves a free man.

Variants

File:JuanJoseCastelli.png Castellism

Juan José Castelli was an File:Cball-Argentina.png Argentine lawyer, File:InfRevolutionaryism.png revolutionary, and political leader who played a central role in the early phase of the Río de la Plata independence movement. Born in Buenos Aires in 1764, Castelli was educated at the Royal College of San Carlos and later studied law at the University of Chuquisaca. During his time in Upper Peru, he encountered File:Enlightenment.png Enlightenment philosophy and absorbed the political doctrines of File:Rousseau.png Jean-Jacques Rousseau and other eighteenth-century thinkers. These influences shaped his commitment to File:DemPop.png popular sovereignty, File:Equality.png egalitarianism, and File:Anti-Absolutism.png anti-absolutism, which later defined his revolutionary activity.

Castelli emerged as a leading figure during the May Revolution of 1810, aligning closely with File:MarianoMoreno.png Mariano Moreno and the File:RadLib.png radical faction within the Primera Junta. His political formation reflected Enlightenment thought, Jacobinism, and a File:CapAnti Clerical.png rejection of both clerical authority and hereditary monarchy. Although he initially supported the Carlotist project of a File:Conmon.png Constitutional Monarchism under Carlota Joaquina of Spain, this stance functioned as a tactical measure rather than a lasting conviction. His rhetoric and policy initiatives showed File:Antimon.png anti-monarchism, File:Anticon.png anti-conservatism, and File:AntiModer.png anti-moderatism, positioning him among the most uncompromising revolutionaries of the Río de la Plata.

Appointed to lead military and political operations in Upper Peru, Castelli implemented, along with his secretary File:BernardoDeMonteagudo.png Bernardo de Monteagudo, sweeping reforms following early patriot victories. He abolished File:Native.png Indigenous tribute and forced labor systems, decreed the elimination of the File:Inquisition.png Inquisition and the suppression of titles of nobility, authorized File:Globcap.png free trade and File:LandReform.png redistributed land expropriated from the File:Slavery.png Mit'as, and proclaimed legal equality for Indigenous populations. His policies reflected indigenist sympathies and admiration for the legacy of File:TúpacAmaruII.png Túpac Amaru II, whose eighteenth-century rebellion he interpreted as a precursor to continental liberation. Castelli’s gestures toward an File:Cball-Inca.png Inca restoration were designed to mobilize Indigenous support and legitimize revolutionary authority. These measures illustrate his fusion of File:RevNat.png Revolutionary Nationalism with File:Anti-Colonial.png anti-colonial and File:AntiHisp.png anti-Spanish sentiment.

Castelli’s governance in Upper Peru also displayed authoritarian progressivism. While advocating egalitarian principles and popular sovereignty, he endorsed harsh disciplinary measures against royalist opponents. His critics accused him of File:Robespierre.png Robespierreism and File:StateTerrorist.png state terrorism, citing executions of counterrevolutionaries and his defense of the File:Death Penalty.png death penalty as necessary instruments of revolutionary justice.

Intellectually, Castelli combined Rousseauian concepts of the general will with File:Utility.png utilitarian reasoning about political necessity. He rejected File:AntiReact.png reactionary and File:AntiTrad.png traditionalist structures that, in his view, perpetuated colonial hierarchy and racial stratification. His File:AntiRacism.png anti-racist orientation was expressed in decrees promoting legal equality and dismantling caste distinctions, though practical implementation remained uneven. At the same time, his support for File:Globcap.png free trade signaled a break from mercantilist colonial restrictions and aligned with broader revolutionary economic reform.

Castelli’s defeat at the Battle of Huaqui in 1811 weakened the File:Authradicalism.png radical faction within the revolutionary government. Recalled to Buenos Aires and placed on trial, he defended his policies before dying of cancer in 1812. Despite his short political career, he left a lasting imprint on Argentine and Andean revolutionary memory. His synthesis of Enlightenment radicalism, anti-colonial militancy, Indigenous inclusion, and centralized revolutionary authority situates him as one of the most ideologically assertive figures of the early independence era.

File:FreeSoil.png Free Soilerism

The Free Soil Party was a single-issue File:Anti-slavery.png anti-slavery party that existed from 1848 to 1854. It was the successor of the Liberty Party made up of many File:Demcr.png Democrats and File:ClassUSCon.png Whigs who were unhappy with the approval of the Democratic Nominees in regard to the expansion of slavery into newly gained Mexican lands.

In the 1848 presidential election, File:FreeSoil.png The Free Soil Party ran under former president File:Buren.png Martin van Buren and won an impressive 10.8% of the popular vote, beating out every other third party behind this point. Many rejoined the Democrat and Whig parties right after, however throughout it's lifetime it kept an influence in the senate and got just under 5% of the popular vote in the 1852 presidential election (ran under John P. Hale) before merging with File:RepubUS.png The Republican Party in 1854.

File:JohnBrown.png John Brown Thought

John Brown was a radical abolitionist who fought in Bleeding Kansas and led an unsuccessful slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry. Brown was raised in a File:Calvinist Theocracy.png Puritan family which would profoundly influence his views. He believed that God was using him to act as a new File:Moses.png Moses who would lead another race of people out of bondage. Brown believed that violence was necessary to end slavery since decades of peace had failed. Brown was a leader of abolitionist forces in Bleeding Kansas, a state level civil war to determine whether Kansas would be a slave or free state. Brown and his sons killed five slavery supporters in the Pottawatomie massacre and would lead abolitionist forces at the Battle of Black Jack and the Battle of Osawatomie.

In October 1859, Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia hoping to start a slave rebellion that would engulf the entire South. The plan however was poorly executed leading to Brown's capture by File:Cball-CSA.png Robert E. Lee. Brown was tried for treason and was executed by hanging. His actions were a huge contributing factor to the Civil War with Southerners viewing him as a madman and terrorist while Northerners viewed him as a martyr and hero.

Personality

Abolitionism is a deeply moralistic individual, who loves to talk about past Abolition movements. Often shown organizing protests and reading historical literature.

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Relationships

Brave Revolutionaries

• Liberalism & File:Civlibert.png Civil Libertarianism - Freedom for every man - every citizen!
• Anti-Authoritarianism - Rise up fellow man, break free from your chains!
• Christian Theocracy - The first religion to morally challenge slavery even though some of you once ignored that in the New World and some texts in the Bible defends slavery!
• File:Methodist Theocracy.png Methodism - Like the above, but you guys specifically moved to Kansas during the 1850s to help me fight slavery!
• File:Lincolnism.png Lincolnism - The feathers are already RUFFLED! Thank you for freeing black slaves and defeating the Confederacy! Slavery shouldn't be used as a punishment either, wouldn't that be cruel and unusual punishment?
• File:Radlib.png Radicalism - You did great! Fox and the Radical Republicans were amazing!
• File:Enlightenment.png Enlightenment Thought - All men are born free...
• File:Distributist.png Distributism - My son that took my ideas even further.
• File:Marketsoc.png Market Socialism - John Brown founded a co-op, and you seem to go even further than the above guy.
• Jacobinism & File:Girondi.png Girondism - It was thanks to your efforts that the slavery was put to an end, something File:Bonaparte.png he unfortunately casted aside.
• File:Transh.png Transhumanism and File:POSTHUMANISMICON.png Post-Humanism - Who needs slaves when you have much more efficient machines? And you can help me fight neo-slavery.
• File:Clib.png Classical Liberalism - I would put you in neutral because of a few pro-slavery ones, but let's be honest, almost all abolitionists were Classical Liberals (or were inspired). Anyway, thanks a lot.
• File:ClassSocDem.png Classical Social Democracy - Beautiful liberation of the workers.
• File:Utsoc.png Utopian Socialism - Many of your earlier theorists supported me.

Abolition Sympathisers

• File:Reactsoc.png Reactionary Socialism - Not really a reactionary but Wang Mang was ahead of his time. But Fitzhugh was horrible though.
• File:Enlightmon.png Enlightened Absolutism - Half of your supporters are against slavery and serfdom, but the other half are in favor of... both?
• File:Tradcon.png Classical Conservatism - Same as above? What's wrong with you two?
• File:Whitesup.png White Nationalism - The CSA and the KKK were horrible but some of you might support me in order to avoid a multi-ethnic society with the presence of slaves of other races. Lincoln and the 19th century Republicans were very often a combination of you and me, certainly in my day anti-racism was not very fashionable even among Northern abolitionists.
• Capitalism - Most of your supporters say they are opposed to slavery, but many of your critics accuse you of "Neo-slavery". Care to elaborate?
  • File:LBubble.pngSure - for only $9.99 a month!File:RBubble.png
• Socialism - Another economic system whose supporters often resent slavery, but your opponents call you state-mandated slavery.
• Anarchism -Same as him, but more extreme, anarchy is the opposite of slavery.
• File:Indust.png Industrialism - Mechanization made slavery obsolete in many sectors (cotton picker, for example), but sweatshop labor is no better.
• File:Minarchist.png Minarchism - Please stop advocating self-slavery.
• File:Fash.pngFascism - Thanks for ending slavery in Ethiopia, but why did you ally with File:Nazi.pngthat asshole?
• File:Mao.png Maoism - Props for ending serfdom in Tibet, but what’s with the Lao-Gai camps?
• File:MLM.png Marxism–Leninism–Maoism - A Maoist who wants to end the Indian caste system.
• File:Gaddafi.png Gaddafism - Funder of the above. At least there was no slavery under your rule though...
• File:Ormarxf.png Marxism - Great abolitionist, but his ideas influenced them File:Polpot.png.
• File:Hamiltonianism.png Hamiltonianism - Thanks for kind of supporting me, but you didn’t go far enough and owned slaves yourself.
• File:Ultraprogressivism.png Revolutionary Progressivism and File:Lpop.png Left-Wing Populism - I like where you are going but you go way too far. Still Nat Turner and John Brown were based though.
• File:Honk.png Satirism - Uh...thanks for the John Brown Isekai memes? Wait... WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU ACTUALLY MADE IT!?

Slaveowning Scum

• File:Slavery.png Slavery - FREE! THE! SLAVES!
  • File:Slavery.png File:LBubble.pngFUCK YOU [REDACTED]File:RBubble.png

• • File:JohnBrown.png File:LBubble.pngVery well then. If we can't do this the easy way, we will do this the hard way.File:RBubble.png

• • File:Slavery.png File:LBubble.pngVery well then. If we can't do this the easy way, we will do this the hard way. *kills John Brown*File:RBubble.png

• File:Feud.png Feudalism - Ha-ha, serfdom is no more!
  • File:Feud.png File:LBubble.pngNO! Enlightenment demagogues like you destroyed the stable system of the Middle Ages!File:RBubble.png

• • File:LBubble.pngStable if you were a noble, maybe, but no man should be forced to work.File:RBubble.png

• File:Cball-CSA.png Confederatism - States' rights to do what exactly?
  • File:Cball-CSA.png File:LBubble.pngTo own slaves, duh.File:RBubble.png

• • File:LBubble.pngSo you admit it, then. Your “nation” was created solely to preserve utmost evil, and its defeat was deserved.File:RBubble.png

• File:Krater.png Kraterocracy - Main proponent and practitioner of the slavery system.
  • File:Krater.png File:LBubble.pngWhy should I care what the weak want?File:RBubble.png

• File:Ingsocf.png Ingsoc, File:Neobol.png Neo-Bolshevism & File:OOTS.png Death Worship - Same goes to you-*unpersoned*
  • File:Ingsocf.png/File:Neobol.png/File:OOTS.png File:LBubble.pngTHE PARTY WOULD LIKE TO REMIND YOU THAT FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.File:RBubble.png

• File:Bonaparte.png Bonapartism - I'll never forgive you for restarting slavery!
• File:Klep.png Kleptocracy & File:Illeg.png Illegalism - "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."'
• File:Nazi.png Nazism - You forced many prisoners to do manual labor for you, not to mention the Holocaust!
• File:Jihad.png Jihadism - Commits acts of terrorism and kidnapping, forces women to submit to men and wear unwanted headgear, while justifying it all with religiously extremist dogmas!

Further Information

File:Wikipedia.png Wikipedia

• Abolitionism
• File:Anti-slavery.png Anti-Slavery International
• File:Radical Republican.png Frederick Douglass
• File:FreeSoil.png Free Soil Party
• File:Lincolnism.png Abraham Lincoln
• File:Anti-slavery.png Slave rebellion
• Underground Railroad

File:TVTropes.png TV Tropes

• File:Anti-slavery.png Slavery Is A Special Kind Of Evil
• Gladiator Revolt
• Slave Liberation

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