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A Triumph for Humanity: William Wilberforce and the Team that ‘Bowled Out Slavery’

October 4, 2023May 18, 2019 by Gale Ambassadors

│By Lyndsey England, Gale Ambassador at Durham University │

‘What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a Slave Trade with Africa?’ asked William Wilberforce in a speech in 1789. ‘Does anyone suppose a Slave Trade would help their civilization? That Africa would profit from such an intercourse? Is it not plain, that she must suffer from it?’ With these questions in mind, the famed abolitionist made a decisive judgement: ‘We are all guilty,’ he said, ‘we ought all to plead guilty’.

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Categories Gale Publishers Tags Abolitionism, abolitionist’s rhetoric, Capitalism and Slavery, Durham University, ECCO, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, historian Eric Williams, inhumanity of the Slave Trade, Josiah Wedgwood, slavery, Society of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, the first political logo, The Independent Digital Archive, the propaganda campaign of the abolitionists, The Times Digital Archive, William Wilberforce

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