William WilberforceBirth Chart
24/08/1759 unknown time
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Kingston upon Hull
England
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William Wilberforce was a British politician and philanthropist whose work decisively shaped the abolitionist movement in the United Kingdom. Serving as Member of Parliament for Yorkshire from 1784 to 1812, he became a leading voice in the parliamentary campaign against the transatlantic slave trade, steering debates and initiatives that culminated in the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. After a religious conversion in 1785, Wilberforce devoted himself to moral and social causes grounded in his Anglican faith: defending education, supporting British missions in India, promoting free settlement in Sierra Leone, and taking part in the founding of institutions such as the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. At the same time, his conservative stance led him to back repressive domestic legislation, attracting criticism about his priorities and the consistency between his national concerns and his commitment to abolition. In his later years, although forced out of Parliament by ill health, he remained active in the campaign for the total abolition of slavery, which concluded with the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833; Wilberforce died shortly after learning that the measure had been secured.
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