Jane Austen, Abolitionist, is as much about Jane Austen's most famous title phrase as about Austen's writing. The phrase "pride and prejudice" was used hundreds of times in print before and during Austen's time, moving from religious to secular contexts. From the eighteenth century into the nineteenth, it came to be associated consistently with the antislavery movement. In Austen's lifetime, and continuing after, it was increasingly sign and signal of abolitionism, in both Britain and America.