William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833)

William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833)

William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833) – an English MP and Christian social reformer who was very influential in achieving the abolition of the so-called ‘ slave-trade’ and then slavery itself in the British Empire.

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