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William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull , Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, and became an independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Yorkshire (1784–1812).
William Wilberforce, the leader of the British campaign to abolish the slave trade. Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville by Sir Thomas Lawrence Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion created as part of anti-slavery campaign by Josiah Wedgwood, 1787. The Slave Trade Act 1807 (47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c.
William Wilberforce had written in his diary in 1787 that his great purpose in life was to suppress the slave trade before waging a 20-year fight on the industry. [15] In 1807, Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which outlawed the international slave trade, but not slavery itself.
In 1789 Clarkson's promoted the committee's cause by encouraging the sale of Equiano's memoir and inviting the former slave to lecture in British ports linked to the slave trade. William Wilberforce introduced the first Bill to abolish the slave trade in 1791, which was defeated by 163 votes to 88. [4]
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are touring the Caribbean to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Amazing Grace is a 2006 biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted, about the abolitionist campaign against the slave trade in the British Empire, led by William Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade legislation through the British parliament. The title is a reference to the 1772 hymn "Amazing Grace".
William Wilberforce, a leading English abolitionist, led Parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade. Campaigned for the end of slavery in British Empire, dying three days after hearing the passage of the Act through Parliament assured.
The following year, ... the House of Commons by William Wilberforce over the ... a long-term solution to the slave trade, the expedition ended in abject failure, with ...