William Wilberforce
Storyboard Text
- William Wilberforce was born 24th August in 1759. His father was a rich merchant.
- He went to Cambridge and met William Pitt the Younger.
- In 1780 he became a MP and in 1784 he became the MP for Yorkshire.
- He introduces his first anti - slavery bill to parliament in 1789.
- The slave trade was abolished in the British Empire in 1807.
- Slavery was ended and he died 3 days after his bill was passed in 1833.
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