WILBERFORCE, William
(1759-1833)
Hull
• 'On the Horrors of the Slave Trade'
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/ www.bartleby.com/ 268/ 4/ 8.html#txt1
...An abridged version of Wilberforce’s speech before parliament on May 12th, 1789, in support of the abolition of the slave trade.
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/ justus.anglican.org/ resources/ bio/ 214.html - http:/
/ www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ REwilberforce.htm - http:/
/ www.brycchancarey.com/ abolition/ wilberforce.htm - http:/
/ www.christianitytoday.com/ ch/ 53h/ 53h012.html
...Includes a discussion of what Wilberforce called the "two great objects" in his life: "the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners" (i.e. of the nation's morality).