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It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. We were supposed to have time—to figure it out. But that’s not the way it went down. Immortality crashed into the world like a tidal wave. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, some people began to take seriously the possibility of cracking the genetic code and beating back the inevitability of growing old. But for most, the dream was put in a box labeled, someday. Nobody ever thought it would be tomorrow. Then, geneticist, Simon Barstow, stumbled on the secret. He was not prepared. The world was not prepared—that is, except for one man.

Abolitionism was the movement that strove to end slavery in the United States. The abolitionists saw slavery as a stain and an affliction on the United States and made it their goal to eradicate slave ownership. Abolitionists produced anti-slavery literature, sent petitions to Congress, and ran for political office.