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William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce was an English politician and evangelical Christian who led the parliamentary campaign against the slave trade. Member of Parliament for Hull and later Yorkshire, he introduced abolition bills from 1789 until the Slave Trade Act was passed in 1807. He then campaigned for the abolition of slavery itself, and the Slavery Abolition Act passed in 1833, days after his death.
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