abolition

IPA: æbʌɫˈɪʃʌn

The act of abolishing; an annulling; abrogation.
The state of being abolished.
(historical, often capitalised, UK, US) The ending of the slave trade or of slavery.
(historical, often capitalised, Australia) The ending of convict transportation.
(obsolete) An amnesty; a putting out of memory.

Examples of "abolition" in Sentences

For the attending audience, the term "abolition" was not a novel concept.
And in addition to the word abolition, which comes from 1787, we have slave driver.
In slave lands, the word abolition was about as polite as some of the more colorful expletives of a river rat.
The pantomime and melodrama versions of Obi, or Three-finger'd Jack played an important role in abolition debates and in the career of Ira
I understand the Rothbardian, knee-jerk impulse to say "abolish federal agency X," but I'm not sure abolition is even necessary, so long as people are allowed to "innovate around" existing bureaucracy.
The Genies are long out of the bottle as the Scots and the Welsh assemblies would now have to make a serious mess of it to earn sufficient enmity, nay the deep hatred of their electorates that their abolition is demanded.
They first insisted that the abolition of the slave-trade would ruin the colonies -- next the _abolition of slavery_ was to be the certain destruction of the islands -- and now the education of children is deprecated as fraught with disastrous consequences.
The last successful American third party, the Republicans, had a noble cause in abolition and the dominant political imperative in American history: Union, and they elected several candidates to statewide office before Lincoln (their second Presidential nominee) won the White House.