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During the campaign, she described herself as an abolitionist — someone who supports the abolition of police and prisons.

U.S. officials first announced in 2016 that a ship would be named for Milk, as well as for abolitionist Sojourner Truth, Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren, Atty.

Consider the Haitian Revolution, American abolitionist movement, and suffragist campaigns: history shows that morally expansive recognition of rights, even to beings considered “property,” often aligns with broader human liberation.

In addition, government websites began scrubbing African-American history, including in the case of the National Park Service eliminating a photo of the famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman and descriptions of the brutal realities of slavery.

Salon: Are there any lessons you think from the example of the abolitionists or the suffragists that people trying to resist the current backlash could take inspiration from?