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Social Movements · 1833

Abolition of Slavery, British Empire

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Works dated 1830–1836

The abolition movement produced some of the 19th century's most morally charged imagery, Turner's Slave Ship (1840) its monument, and established art as an instrument of humanitarian conscience.

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Abolition of Slavery, British Empire (1833) · Ellsworth