Talk:List of African-American abolitionists

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This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. Owen× ☎ 01:18, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Sheila White?

Why is she listed here? ''Paul, in Saudi'' (talk) 03:44, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

If I understand your question, you are wondering why African-American abolitionist Sheila White is listed as an African-American abolitionist. - SummerPhD^v2.0 19:32, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

The term "Abolitionist" is generally used to describe the fight against African-American chattel slavery during the period before the American Civil War. While modern-day anti-slavery campaigns and campaigners exist, they do not seem to call themselves "Abolitionists." A more common modern term is "anti-slavery." A quick look at List of organizations that combat human trafficking does not seem to include the older term. But of course there is much in the world I am mistaken about. ''Paul, in Saudi'' (talk) 03:30, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Your "general" use of the term is contextually bound. Yes, in discussing U.S. history, it generally refers to chattel slavery in the U.S./colonies.

Wikipedia is not American. In other contexts, the term refers to the fight against slavery in general.

This article currently lacks explicit inclusion criteria. Presumably one criterion is blue link notability. After that, we have the option of going with the simple, unambiguous "independent reliable sources directly say the person is an African-American abolitionist". The alternate is a sourced, unambiguous, objective test of some kind (which is likely to be hard to come by).

Without inclusion criteria, it's rather hard to make an air-tight case to include or exclude anyone. - SummerPhD^v2.0 04:55, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

It might be useful to make a list of Abolitionists of the Pre-Civil War and a list of those who now describe themselves as "Abolitionists," if anyone does. But this is a project for someone with more knowledge and interest in the subject. ''Paul, in Saudi'' (talk) 05:18, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

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