William Wilberforce 1759-1833
Mar 17, 2022
2 minutes
IN PROFILE
illiam Wilberforce was a British politician who led the movement to abolish the slave trade, culminating in the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807 – the beginning of the end of slavery in the British empire. An evangelical Christian, and an MP from 1780 to 1825, the
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