Terms of the Day for October 7

• Utopia – a community or society possessing highly desirable or perfect qualities. The word was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More’s book Utopia, describing a fictional island with a perfect society. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature..
• Abolitionism – a movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal.   In the nineteenth century,  this movement was highly organized and contributed to many societal changes in America, the Civil War, and the eventual emancipation of slave in the United States.