William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a deeply religious man whose political views were The Slavery Abolition Bill 1833 passed through the House of Lords,
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250th ANNIVERSARY Birth of William Wilberforce (August 24, 1759) Birth of William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the original American Anti-Slavery Society...
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William Wilberforce was born in 1759 and served in Parliament from 1780 to 1825. A turning point in his religious life was a tour of Europe. Wilberforce brought it up again every year for eighteen years, until the slave trade was finally abolished on 25 March 1806. He continued the campaign against slavery itself,
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William Wilberforce died on 29th July, 1833. One month later, Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act that gave all slaves in the British Empire their...
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18th-19th century anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce © Wilberforce was a deeply religious English member of parliament and social reformer who was very influential in the abolition of the slave trade and eventually slavery itself in the British empire.
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By the late 1700s, the economics of slavery were so entrenched that only a handful of people thought anything could be done about it. That handful included William Wilberforce.
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Sep 20, 2007 William Wilberforce, abolitionist: biography, bibliography, links, Croydon has passed into the mythology of the anti-slavery movement.
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On February 24, 1791 at age 88, six days before his death, this last letter was addressed to William Wilberforce. Wesley had spoken out forcibly against slavery his whole life. In 1774, he wrote the influential Thoughts Upon Slavery.
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