Monday, August 24, 2009

William Wilberforce

Today is the 250th birthday of William Wilberforce.



"So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its William Wilberforceabolition."

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