Historical Figure
William Wilberforce
English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)
Born: 1798 CE · Died: 1879 CENationality: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
About William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the Atlantic 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). In 1785, he underwent a conversion experience and became an evangelical Anglican, which resulted in major changes to his lifestyle and a lifelong concern for reform.Wikipedia ↗
Associated Events
Colonialism1526 CE – 1867 CE
Atlantic Slave Trade
The forced transportation of an estimated 12.5 million Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas as enslaved labor over more than three centuries, one of history's greatest crimes against humanity.
Economic1807 CE – 1888 CE
Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Beginning with Britain's Slave Trade Act of 1807, a decades-long movement abolished the transatlantic slave trade and eventually slavery itself across the Western world, transforming global economics and establishing human rights principles.