Abolition is the act of formally destroying something through legal means, either by making it illegal, or simply no longer allowing it to exist in any form.
The aim of the prison abolitionmovement is to eliminate prisons, jails, immigration detention centers, and prisoner of war camps by alternatives which they argue are more useful and more humane.
Prison abolitionists present a broad critique of the criminal justice system in the West, which they feel is racist, classist, and ineffectual at “reforming” criminals, decreasing crime, or reconciling the victims of crime.
Many people involved in the prison abolitionmovement are also involved in struggles against other forms of social control and "oppression," such as the institutionalization of the insane, and for this reason the struggle has been associated with anarchism and anti-authoritarians.
In May 1787, the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was formed, referring to the Atlantic slave trade, the trafficking in slaves by British merchants operating in British colonies and other countries.
The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 25, 1807.
The abolitionist movement was strengthened by the activities of free African-Americans, especially in the fl church, who argued that the old Biblical justifications for slavery contradicted the New Testament.
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