William Wilberforce
Evangelical politician and abolitionist · 1759 – 1833
Led the parliamentary campaign that abolished the British slave trade in 1807
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Biography
William Wilberforce was an evangelical Christian and Member of Parliament who from 1787 led the campaign to abolish the slave trade, achieved in 1807. He died three days after the Slavery Abolition Bill passed its key stage in 1833.
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- Abolition of the slave trade (1807) and of slavery in most of the British Empire (1833)
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