Sentences with phrase «abolish slavery until»

The state did not abolish slavery until after the conflict.

He continued to campaign to completely abolish slavery until his health began to fail.

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It was not until the great Civil War amendments that slavery was finally abolished and the promise of «equal protection of the laws» was made — a promise that has not yet been kept.

Yet Christian reformers pressed on, rolling back, one by one, features of the slave trade until it was abolished in 1807 and slavery itself in 1833.

Several years ago, one learned lord justice said extra-judicially that he had always thought that slavery had been abolished in this country until he had been appointed to the Court of Appeal.