What was the relationship between Enlightenment ideas and the abolition movement in the 19th century

Abolitionist Movement, reform movement during the 18th and 19th

centuries. Often called the antislavery movement, it sought to end the

enslavement of Africans and people of African descent in Europe, the

Americas, and Africa itself (see Slavery in Africa). It also aimed to end the

Atlantic slave trade carried out in the Atlantic Ocean between Africa, Europe,

and the Americas.

The historical roots of abolitionism lay in black resistance to slavery. Such

resistance began during the 15th century as Africans enslaved by Europeans

often sought to kill their captors or themselves. By the late 1700s Christian

morality, new ideas about liberty and human rights that came about as a

result of the American and French revolutions, and economic changes led to

an effort among blacks and whites to end human bondage. While On the other hand.

The ideas of the Enlightenment undermined the authority of the monarchy and the Church and paved the way for the political revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. A variety of 19th-century movements, including liberalism and neo-classicism, trace their intellectual heritage back to the Enlightenment.