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id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 Notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 13 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Works_cited" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Works_cited"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 14 Works cited </div> 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hreflang="ar" data-title="ويليام ويلبرفورس" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%A3%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81" title="Уільям Уілберфорс – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Уільям Уілберфорс" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8E%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%8E%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%B1%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81" title="Ўільям Ўілбэрфорс – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Ўільям Ўілбэрфорс" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B1%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81" title="Уилям Уилбърфорс – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Уилям Уилбърфорс" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%AF%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BC_%CE%93%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%AF%CE%BB%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%81%CF%82" title="Γουίλιαμ Γουίλμπερφορς – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Γουίλιαμ Γουίλμπερφορς" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3" title="ویلیام ویلبرفورس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ویلیام ویلبرفورس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%8C%EB%A6%AC%EC%97%84_%EC%9C%8C%EB%B2%84%ED%8F%AC%EC%8A%A4" title="윌리엄 윌버포스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="윌리엄 윌버포스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingua</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A1" title="ויליאם וילברפורס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ויליאם וילברפורס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A3%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B_%E1%83%A3%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%91%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A4%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98" title="უილიამ უილბერფორსი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="უილიამ უილბერფორსი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulielmus_Wilberforce" title="Gulielmus Wilberforce – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Gulielmus Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viljams_Vilberforss" title="Viljams Vilberforss – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Viljams Vilberforss" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3" title="ويليام ويلبرفورس – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ويليام ويلبرفورس" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BC_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81" title="Виллиам Вилберфорс – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Виллиам Вилберфорс" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Монгол</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9" title="ウィリアム・ウィルバーフォース – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ウィリアム・ウィルバーフォース" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="William Wilberforce" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a 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background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a></th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 31 October 1780 – February 1825</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Hartley_(the_Younger)" title="David Hartley (the Younger)">David Hartley</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data">Arthur Gough-Calthorpe</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kingston upon Hull (UK Parliament constituency)">Kingston upon Hull</a> (1780–1784)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Yorkshire</a> (1784–1812)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Bramber_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bramber (UK Parliament constituency)">Bramber</a> (1812–1825)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">(1759-08-24)24 August 1759 <a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull" title="Kingston upon Hull">Kingston upon Hull</a>, Yorkshire, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">29 July 1833(1833-07-29) (aged 73) <a href="/wiki/Belgravia" title="Belgravia">Belgravia</a>, London, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Wilberforce" title="Barbara Wilberforce">Barbara Spooner</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style>1797)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">6, including <a href="/wiki/Robert_Wilberforce" title="Robert Wilberforce">Robert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Wilberforce" title="Samuel Wilberforce">Samuel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Wilberforce" title="Henry Wilberforce">Henry</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St John's College, Cambridge">St John's College, Cambridge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/File:Wilber.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="William Wilberforce's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Wilber.svg/128px-Wilber.svg.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="41" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Wilber.svg/192px-Wilber.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Wilber.svg/256px-Wilber.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="694" data-file-height="220" /></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Venerated in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast</a></th><td class="infobox-data">30 July</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, <a href="/wiki/Philanthropy" title="Philanthropy">philanthropist</a>, and a leader of the movement to abolish the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">slave trade</a>. A native of <a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull" title="Kingston upon Hull">Kingston upon Hull</a>, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, and became an <a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">independent</a> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> (MP) for <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Yorkshire</a> (1784–1812). In 1785, he underwent a <a href="/wiki/Religious_conversion" title="Religious conversion">conversion</a> experience and became an <a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism">Evangelical</a> Anglican, which resulted in major changes to his lifestyle and a lifelong concern for reform. In 1787, Wilberforce came into contact with <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Clarkson" title="Thomas Clarkson">Thomas Clarkson</a> and a group of activists against the slave trade, including <a href="/wiki/Granville_Sharp" title="Granville Sharp">Granville Sharp</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hannah_More" title="Hannah More">Hannah More</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Middleton,_1st_Baron_Barham" title="Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham">Charles Middleton</a>. They persuaded Wilberforce to take on the cause of abolition, and he became a leading English <a href="/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Abolitionism in the United Kingdom">abolitionist</a>. He headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for 20 years until the passage of the <a href="/wiki/Slave_Trade_Act_1807" title="Slave Trade Act 1807">Slave Trade Act 1807</a>. Wilberforce was convinced of the importance of religion, morality and education. He championed causes and campaigns such as the <a href="/wiki/Society_for_the_Suppression_of_Vice" title="Society for the Suppression of Vice">Society for the Suppression of Vice</a>, British missionary work in India, the creation of a free colony in <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Leone" title="Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a>, the foundation of the <a href="/wiki/Church_Mission_Society" title="Church Mission Society">Church Mission Society</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_for_the_Prevention_of_Cruelty_to_Animals" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals">Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals</a>. He supported politically and socially repressive legislation. His critics thought that he was ignoring injustices at home while campaigning for the enslaved abroad. In later years, Wilberforce supported the campaign for the complete abolition of slavery and continued his involvement after 1826, when he resigned from Parliament because of his failing health. That campaign led to the <a href="/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833" title="Slavery Abolition Act 1833">Slavery Abolition Act 1833</a>, which abolished slavery in most of the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a>. Wilberforce died just three days after hearing that the passage of the act through Parliament was assured. He was buried in <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a>, close to his friend <a href="/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger" title="William Pitt the Younger">William Pitt the Younger</a>. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education">edit</a>]</div> Wilberforce was born in <a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull" title="Kingston upon Hull">Hull</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a>, England, on 24 August 1759.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> He was the only son of Robert Wilberforce (1728–1768), a wealthy merchant, and his wife, Elizabeth Bird (1730–1798). His grandfather, William (1690–1774),<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> had made the family fortune in the maritime trade with <a href="/wiki/Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic</a> countries.<a href="#cite_note-PbCu-4">[a]</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[4]</a> He was twice elected mayor of Hull.<a href="#cite_note-6">[5]</a> Wilberforce was a small, sickly and delicate child with poor eyesight.<a href="#cite_note-7">[6]</a> In 1767, he began attending <a href="/wiki/Hull_Grammar_School" title="Hull Grammar School">Hull Grammar School</a>,<a href="#cite_note-8">[7]</a> which at the time was headed by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Milner_(priest)" title="Joseph Milner (priest)">Joseph Milner</a>, who would become a lifelong friend.<a href="#cite_note-9">[8]</a> Wilberforce profited from the supportive atmosphere at the school, until his father died in 1768. With his mother struggling to cope, the nine-year-old Wilberforce was sent to a prosperous uncle and aunt with houses in both <a href="/wiki/St_James%27s_Place" title="St James's Place">St James's Place</a>, London, and <a href="/wiki/Wimbledon,_London" title="Wimbledon, London">Wimbledon</a>. He attended an "indifferent" boarding school in <a href="/wiki/Putney" title="Putney">Putney</a> for two years and spent his holidays in Wimbledon, where he grew extremely fond of his relatives.<a href="#cite_note-10">[9]</a> He became interested in <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical Christianity">evangelical Christianity</a> due to his relatives' influence, especially that of his aunt Hannah, sister of the wealthy merchant <a href="/wiki/John_Thornton_(philanthropist)" title="John Thornton (philanthropist)">John Thornton</a>, a philanthropist and a supporter of the leading <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodist</a> preacher <a href="/wiki/George_Whitefield" title="George Whitefield">George Whitefield</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> Wilberforce's staunchly <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a> mother and grandfather, alarmed at these <a href="/wiki/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)" title="Nonconformist (Protestantism)">nonconformist</a> influences and at his leanings towards evangelicalism, brought the 12-year-old boy back to Hull in 1771. Wilberforce was heartbroken at being separated from his aunt and uncle.<a href="#cite_note-11">[10]</a> His family opposed a return to Hull Grammar School because the headmaster had become a Methodist, and Wilberforce continued his education at <a href="/wiki/Pocklington_School" title="Pocklington School">Pocklington School</a> from 1771 to 1776.<a href="#cite_note-12">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[12]</a> Influenced by Methodist scruples, he initially resisted Hull's lively social life, but, as his religious fervour diminished, he embraced theatre-going, attended balls, and played cards.<a href="#cite_note-14">[13]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wilberforce_House_Hull.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="statue on a lawn of a two-storey Georgian house" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Wilberforce_House_Hull.jpg/180px-Wilberforce_House_Hull.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Wilberforce_House_Hull.jpg/270px-Wilberforce_House_Hull.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Wilberforce_House_Hull.jpg/360px-Wilberforce_House_Hull.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1704" data-file-height="2272" /></a><figcaption>A statue of William Wilberforce outside <a href="/wiki/Wilberforce_House" title="Wilberforce House">Wilberforce House</a>, his birthplace in Hull</figcaption></figure> In October 1776, at the age of seventeen, Wilberforce went up to <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St John's College, Cambridge">St John's College, Cambridge</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Pollock_1977_7-15">[14]</a> The deaths of his grandfather and uncle, in 1774 and 1777 respectively, had left him independently wealthy<a href="#cite_note-Hague_2007_20-16">[15]</a> and as a result he had little inclination or need to apply himself to serious study. Instead he immersed himself in the social round of student life<a href="#cite_note-Pollock_1977_7-15">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-Hague_2007_20-16">[15]</a> and pursued a hedonistic lifestyle, enjoying cards, gambling and late-night drinking sessions – although he found the excesses of some of his fellow students distasteful.<a href="#cite_note-17">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-Hague_2007_23-18">[17]</a> Witty, generous and an excellent conversationalist, Wilberforce was a popular figure. He made many friends, including the more studious future Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger" title="William Pitt the Younger">William Pitt</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Hague_2007_23-18">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-19">[18]</a> Despite his lifestyle and lack of interest in studying, he managed to pass his examinations<a href="#cite_note-Pollock_1977_9-20">[19]</a> and was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> degree in 1781 and a <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxford,_Cambridge,_and_Dublin)" class="mw-redirect" title="Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)">Master of Arts</a> degree in 1788.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_parliamentary_career">Early parliamentary career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early parliamentary career">edit</a>]</div> Wilberforce began to consider a political career while still at university and during the winter of 1779–1780, he and Pitt frequently watched <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons" title="House of Commons">House of Commons</a> debates from the gallery. Pitt, already set on a political career, encouraged Wilberforce to join him in obtaining a parliamentary seat.<a href="#cite_note-Pollock_1977_9-20">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[20]</a> In September 1780, at the age of 21 and while still a student, Wilberforce was elected Member of Parliament for <a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kingston upon Hull (UK Parliament constituency)">Kingston upon Hull</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> spending over £8,000, as was the custom of the time, to ensure he received the necessary votes.<a href="#cite_note-22">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-23">[22]</a> Free from financial pressures, Wilberforce sat as an <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">independent</a>, resolving to be "no party man".<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[23]</a> Criticised at times for inconsistency, he supported both <a href="/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)" title="Tories (British political party)">Tory</a> and <a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> governments according to his conscience, working closely with the party in power, and voting on specific measures according to their merits.<a href="#cite_note-25">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-Oldfield_2007_44-26">[25]</a> Wilberforce attended Parliament regularly, but he also maintained a lively social life, becoming an habitué of <a href="/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_club" title="Gentlemen's club">gentlemen's gambling clubs</a> such as Goostree's and <a href="/wiki/Boodle%27s" title="Boodle's">Boodle's</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pall_Mall,_London" title="Pall Mall, London">Pall Mall, London</a>. The writer and socialite <a href="/wiki/Anne_Louise_Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl" class="mw-redirect" title="Anne Louise Germaine de Staël">Madame de Staël</a> described him as the "wittiest man in England"<a href="#cite_note-27">[26]</a> and, according to <a href="/wiki/Georgiana,_Duchess_of_Devonshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire">Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire</a>, the <a href="/wiki/George_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George IV of the United Kingdom">Prince of Wales</a> said that he would go anywhere to hear Wilberforce sing.<a href="#cite_note-28">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[28]</a> Wilberforce used his speaking voice to great effect in political speeches; the diarist and author <a href="/wiki/James_Boswell" title="James Boswell">James Boswell</a> witnessed Wilberforce's eloquence in the House of Commons and noted, "I saw what seemed a mere shrimp mount upon the table; but as I listened, he grew, and grew, until the shrimp became a whale."<a href="#cite_note-30">[29]</a> During the frequent government changes of 1781–1784, Wilberforce supported his friend Pitt in parliamentary debates.<a href="#cite_note-31">[30]</a> In autumn 1783, Pitt, Wilberforce and <a href="/wiki/Edward_James_Eliot" title="Edward James Eliot">Edward Eliot</a> travelled to France for a six-week holiday together.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> After a difficult start in <a href="/wiki/Rheims" class="mw-redirect" title="Rheims">Rheims</a>, where their presence aroused police suspicion that they were English spies, they visited Paris, meeting <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_marquis_de_La_Fayette" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette">General Lafayette</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marie_Antoinette" title="Marie Antoinette">Marie Antoinette</a> and <a href="/wiki/Louis_XVI" title="Louis XVI">Louis XVI</a>, and joined the French court at <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Fontainebleau" title="Palace of Fontainebleau">Fontainebleau</a>.<a href="#cite_note-32">[31]</a> Pitt became Prime Minister in December 1783, with Wilberforce a key supporter of his <a href="/wiki/Minority_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Minority administration">minority government</a>.<a href="#cite_note-33">[32]</a> Despite their close friendship, there is no record that Pitt offered Wilberforce a <a href="/wiki/Minister_(government)" title="Minister (government)">ministerial position</a> in this or future governments. This may have been due to Wilberforce's wish to remain an independent MP. Alternatively, Wilberforce's frequent tardiness and disorganisation, as well as his chronic eye problems that at times made reading impossible, may have convinced Pitt that he was not ministerial material.<a href="#cite_note-34">[33]</a> When Parliament was dissolved in the spring of 1784, Wilberforce decided to stand as a candidate for the county of <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Yorkshire</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1784_British_general_election" title="1784 British general election">1784 general election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> On 6 April, he was returned as MP for Yorkshire at the age of twenty-four.<a href="#cite_note-35">[34]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conversion">Conversion</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Conversion">edit</a>]</div> In October 1784, Wilberforce embarked upon a tour of Europe with his mother, sister and <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Milner" title="Isaac Milner">Isaac Milner</a>, the younger brother of his former headmaster. They visited the <a href="/wiki/French_Riviera" title="French Riviera">French Riviera</a> and had dinners, played cards, and gambled.<a href="#cite_note-36">[35]</a> In February 1785, Wilberforce returned to London temporarily, to support Pitt's proposals for parliamentary reforms. He rejoined the party in <a href="/wiki/Genoa" title="Genoa">Genoa</a>, Italy, and they continued their tour to Switzerland. Milner accompanied Wilberforce to England, and on the journey they read "The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul" by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Doddridge" title="Philip Doddridge">Philip Doddridge</a>, a leading early 18th-century English nonconformist.<a href="#cite_note-37">[36]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wilberforce_john_rising.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="An oil-on-canvas portrait of Wilberforce holding a pen." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Wilberforce_john_rising.jpg/220px-Wilberforce_john_rising.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Wilberforce_john_rising.jpg/330px-Wilberforce_john_rising.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Wilberforce_john_rising.jpg/440px-Wilberforce_john_rising.jpg 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="565" /></a><figcaption>William Wilberforce by <a href="/wiki/John_Rising" title="John Rising">John Rising</a>, 1790, pictured at the age of 30</figcaption></figure> Wilberforce's spiritual journey is thought to have changed course at this time. He started to rise early to read the Bible and pray and kept a private journal.<a href="#cite_note-38">[37]</a> He underwent an evangelical <a href="/wiki/Conversion_to_Christianity" title="Conversion to Christianity">conversion</a>, regretting his past life and resolving to commit his future life and work to the service of God.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> His conversion changed some of his habits, but not his nature: he remained outwardly cheerful, interested and respectful, tactfully urging others towards his new faith.<a href="#cite_note-39">[38]</a> Inwardly, he became self-critical, harshly judging his spirituality, use of time, <a href="/wiki/Vanity" title="Vanity">vanity</a>, self-control and relationships with others.<a href="#cite_note-40">[39]</a> At the time, religious <a href="/wiki/Enthusiasm" title="Enthusiasm">enthusiasm</a> was generally regarded as a social transgression and was stigmatised in polite society. Evangelicals in the upper classes were exposed to contempt and ridicule,<a href="#cite_note-41">[40]</a> and Wilberforce's conversion led him to question whether he should remain in public life. He sought guidance from <a href="/wiki/John_Newton" title="John Newton">John Newton</a>, a leading <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical Anglican">evangelical Anglican</a> clergyman of the day and Rector of <a href="/wiki/St_Mary_Woolnoth" title="St Mary Woolnoth">St Mary Woolnoth</a>.<a href="#cite_note-42">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-43">[42]</a> Both counselled him to remain in politics, and he resolved to do so "with increased diligence and conscientiousness".<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> His political views were informed by his faith and by his desire to promote Christianity and Christian ethics in private and public life.<a href="#cite_note-44">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-45">[44]</a> His views were often deeply conservative, opposed to radical changes in a God-given political and social order, and focused on issues such as the <a href="/wiki/Sabbath_in_Christianity" title="Sabbath in Christianity">observance of the Sabbath</a> and the eradication of immorality through education and reform.<a href="#cite_note-Hague_2007_446-46">[45]</a> He was often distrusted by progressive voices because of his conservatism, and regarded with suspicion by many Tories who saw evangelicals as radicals who wanted the overthrow of church and state.<a href="#cite_note-Oldfield_2007_44-26">[25]</a> In 1786, Wilberforce leased a house in <a href="/wiki/Old_Palace_Yard" title="Old Palace Yard">Old Palace Yard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a>, in order to be near Parliament. He began using his parliamentary position to advocate reform by introducing a Registration Bill, proposing limited changes to parliamentary election procedures.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[46]</a> In response to the need for bodies for dissection by surgeons, he brought forward a bill to extend the measure permitting the <a href="/wiki/Dissection" title="Dissection">dissection</a> after execution of criminals such as rapists, arsonists, burglars and violent robbers. The bill also advocated the reduction of sentences for women convicted of treason, a crime that at the time included a husband's murder. The <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_Great_Britain" title="House of Commons of Great Britain">House of Commons</a> passed both bills, but they were defeated in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a>.<a href="#cite_note-48">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-49">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-Devereaux2015-50">[49]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abolition_of_the_transatlantic_slave_trade">Abolition of the transatlantic slave trade</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Abolition of the transatlantic slave trade">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Initial_decision">Initial decision</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Initial decision">edit</a>]</div> The British initially became involved in the slave trade during the 16th century. By 1783, the <a href="/wiki/Triangular_trade" title="Triangular trade">triangular route</a> that took British-made goods to Africa to buy slaves, transported the enslaved to the West Indies, and then brought slave-grown products such as sugar, tobacco, and cotton to Britain, represented about 80 percent of Great Britain's foreign income.<a href="#cite_note-51">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[51]</a> British ships dominated the slave trade, supplying French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese and British colonies, and in peak years carried forty thousand enslaved men, women and children across the Atlantic in the horrific conditions of the <a href="/wiki/Middle_passage" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle passage">middle passage</a>.<a href="#cite_note-53">[52]</a> Of the estimated 11 million Africans transported into slavery, about 1.4 million died during the voyage.<a href="#cite_note-54">[53]</a> The British campaign to abolish the slave trade is generally considered to have begun in the 1780s with the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Quakers" title="Quakers">Quakers</a>' anti-slavery committees, and their presentation to Parliament of the first slave trade petition in 1783.<a href="#cite_note-Pinfold2007-55">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[55]</a> The same year, Wilberforce, while dining with his <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambridge University">Cambridge</a> friend Gerard Edwards,<a href="#cite_note-Pollock_1977_17-57">[56]</a> met <a href="/wiki/James_Ramsay_(abolitionist)" title="James Ramsay (abolitionist)">Rev. James Ramsay</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Ship%27s_surgeon" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship's surgeon">ship's surgeon</a> who had become a clergyman and medical supervisor on the island of St Christopher (later <a href="/wiki/St_Kitts" class="mw-redirect" title="St Kitts">St Kitts</a>). Ramsay was horrified by the conditions endured by the enslaved peoples, both at sea and on the plantations and returned to England and joined abolitionist movements.<a href="#cite_note-58">[57]</a> Wilberforce did not follow up on his meeting with Ramsay,<a href="#cite_note-Pollock_1977_17-57">[56]</a> but three years later, inspired by his new faith, Wilberforce became interested in <a href="/wiki/Humanitarianism" title="Humanitarianism">humanitarian</a> reform. In November 1786, he received a letter from Sir Charles Middleton that re-opened his interest in the slave trade.<a href="#cite_note-59">[58]</a><a href="#cite_note-Tomkins_2007_55-60">[59]</a> Middleton suggested that Wilberforce bring forward the abolition of the slave trade in Parliament. Wilberforce responded that he "felt the great importance of the subject, and thought himself unequal to the task allotted to him, but yet would not positively decline it".<a href="#cite_note-61">[60]</a> He began to read widely on the subject and met with a group of abolitionists called the <a href="/wiki/Testonites" title="Testonites">Testonites</a> at Middleton's home in the early winter of 1786–1787.<a href="#cite_note-62">[61]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Slaveshipplan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="see caption" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Slaveshipplan.jpg/260px-Slaveshipplan.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="312" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Slaveshipplan.jpg/390px-Slaveshipplan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Slaveshipplan.jpg/520px-Slaveshipplan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="951" data-file-height="1142" /></a><figcaption>Diagram of a slave ship, the <a href="/wiki/Brookes_(ship)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brookes (ship)">Brookes</a>, illustrating how slaves were transported</figcaption></figure> In early 1787, Thomas Clarkson met with Wilberforce for the first time at Old Palace Yard and brought a copy of his essay on the subject.<a href="#cite_note-Brogan2011-63">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-Pollock_1977_55-64">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[64]</a> Clarkson visited Wilberforce weekly, bringing first-hand evidence he had obtained about the slave trade.<a href="#cite_note-Pollock_1977_55-64">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[65]</a> The Quakers, already working for abolition, recognised the need for influence within Parliament, and urged Clarkson to secure a commitment from Wilberforce to bring forward the case for abolition in the House of Commons.<a href="#cite_note-67">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-68">[67]</a> It was arranged that Bennet Langton, a <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> landowner and mutual acquaintance of Wilberforce and Clarkson, would organise a dinner party on 13 March 1787 to ask Wilberforce formally to lead the parliamentary campaign.<a href="#cite_note-69">[68]</a> By the end of the evening, Wilberforce had agreed in general terms that he would bring forward the abolition of the slave trade in Parliament, "provided that no person more proper could be found".<a href="#cite_note-70">[69]</a> The same spring, on 12 May 1787, the still hesitant Wilberforce held a conversation with William Pitt and the future Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/William_Grenville" class="mw-redirect" title="William Grenville">William Grenville</a> as they sat under a large oak tree on Pitt's estate in Kent.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> Under what came to be known as the "Wilberforce Oak" at <a href="/wiki/Holwood_House" title="Holwood House">Holwood House</a>, Pitt challenged his friend to give notice of a motion concerning the slave trade before another parliamentarian did.<a href="#cite_note-71">[70]</a> Wilberforce's response is not recorded, but he later declared this was when he decided to bring forward the motion.<a href="#cite_note-72">[71]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_parliamentary_action">Early parliamentary action</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Early parliamentary action">edit</a>]</div> Wilberforce had planned to introduce a motion giving notice that he would bring forward a bill for the <a href="/wiki/Abolition_of_the_Slave_Trade" class="mw-redirect" title="Abolition of the Slave Trade">Abolition of the Slave Trade</a> during the 1789 parliamentary session. However, in January 1788, he was taken ill with a probable stress-related condition, now thought to be <a href="/wiki/Ulcerative_colitis" title="Ulcerative colitis">ulcerative colitis</a>.<a href="#cite_note-73">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-74">[73]</a> It was several months before he was able to resume work, and he spent time convalescing at <a href="/wiki/Bath,_Somerset" title="Bath, Somerset">Bath</a> and Cambridge. His regular bouts of gastrointestinal illnesses precipitated the use of moderate quantities of <a href="/wiki/Opium" title="Opium">opium</a>, which proved effective in alleviating his condition,<a href="#cite_note-Hochschild_2005_139-75">[74]</a> and which he continued to use for the rest of his life.<a href="#cite_note-76">[75]</a> In Wilberforce's absence, Pitt, who had long been supportive of abolition, introduced the preparatory motion himself, and ordered a <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Privy Council">Privy Council</a> investigation into the slave trade, followed by a House of Commons review.<a href="#cite_note-77">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-78">[77]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Official_medallion_of_the_British_Anti-Slavery_Society_(1795).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A black man with shackles around their wrists and ankles is kneeling to the right. An inscription at the bottom reads ""Am I not a man and a brother?"" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Official_medallion_of_the_British_Anti-Slavery_Society_%281795%29.jpg/220px-Official_medallion_of_the_British_Anti-Slavery_Society_%281795%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Official_medallion_of_the_British_Anti-Slavery_Society_%281795%29.jpg/330px-Official_medallion_of_the_British_Anti-Slavery_Society_%281795%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Official_medallion_of_the_British_Anti-Slavery_Society_%281795%29.jpg/440px-Official_medallion_of_the_British_Anti-Slavery_Society_%281795%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Josiah_Wedgwood#"Am_I_Not_a_Man_And_a_Brother?"" title="Josiah Wedgwood">"Am I Not A Man And A Brother?"</a> Medallion created as part of anti-slavery campaign by <a href="/wiki/Josiah_Wedgwood" title="Josiah Wedgwood">Josiah Wedgwood</a>, 1787</figcaption></figure> With the publication of the Privy Council report in April 1789 and following months of planning, Wilberforce commenced his parliamentary campaign.<a href="#cite_note-Hochschild_2005_139-75">[74]</a><a href="#cite_note-79">[78]</a> On 12 May 1789, he made his first major speech on the subject of abolition in the House of Commons, in which he reasoned that the trade was morally reprehensible and an issue of <a href="/wiki/Natural_justice" title="Natural justice">natural justice</a>. Drawing on Thomas Clarkson's mass of evidence, he described in detail the appalling conditions in which enslaved people travelled from Africa in the middle passage and argued that abolishing the trade would also bring an improvement to the conditions of existing slaves in the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indies</a>. He moved twelve resolutions condemning the slave trade, but did not refer to the abolition of slavery itself, instead dwelling on the potential for reproduction in the existing slave population should the trade be abolished.<a href="#cite_note-80">[79]</a><a href="#cite_note-81">[80]</a> With several parliamentarians signalling support for the bill, the opponents of abolition delayed the vote by proposing that the House of Commons hear its own evidence; Wilberforce, in a decision that has been criticised for prolonging the slave trade, reluctantly agreed.<a href="#cite_note-82">[81]</a><a href="#cite_note-83">[82]</a> The hearings were not completed by the end of the <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_session" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary session">parliamentary session</a> and were deferred until the following year. In the meantime, Wilberforce and Clarkson tried unsuccessfully to take advantage of the egalitarian atmosphere of the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a> to press for France's abolition of the trade.<a href="#cite_note-84">[83]</a> In January 1790, Wilberforce succeeded in speeding up the hearings by gaining approval for a smaller parliamentary <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_select_committees_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary select committees of the United Kingdom">select committee</a> to consider the vast quantity of evidence which had been accumulated.<a href="#cite_note-85">[84]</a> Wilberforce's house in Old Palace Yard became a centre for the abolitionists' campaign and the location for many strategy meetings.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> Petitioners for other causes also besieged him there.<a href="#cite_note-86">[85]</a><a href="#cite_note-87">[86]</a><a href="#cite_note-88">[87]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:35%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> Let us not despair; it is a blessed cause, and success, ere long, will crown our exertions. Already we have gained one victory; we have obtained, for these poor creatures, the recognition of their human nature, which, for a while was most shamefully denied. This is the first fruits of our efforts; let us persevere and our triumph will be complete. Never, never will we desist till we have wiped away this scandal from the Christian name, released ourselves from the load of guilt, under which we at present labour, and extinguished every trace of this bloody traffic, of which our posterity, looking back to the history of these enlightened times, will scarce believe that it has been suffered to exist so long a disgrace and dishonour to this country. </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">William Wilberforce — speech before the House of Commons, 18 April 1791<a href="#cite_note-89">[88]</a></cite></div> </div> Interrupted by a general election in June 1790, the committee finished hearing witnesses and in April 1791, with a closely reasoned four-hour speech, Wilberforce introduced the first <a href="/wiki/Bill_(proposed_law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill (proposed law)">parliamentary bill</a> to abolish the slave trade.<a href="#cite_note-90">[89]</a><a href="#cite_note-91">[90]</a> After two evenings of debate, the bill was easily defeated by 163 votes to 88, as the political climate having swung in a conservative direction after the French Revolution and in reaction to an increase in radicalism and to slave revolts in the <a href="/wiki/French_West_Indies" title="French West Indies">French West Indies</a>.<a href="#cite_note-92">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-93">[92]</a> A protracted parliamentary campaign to abolish slavery continued, and Wilberforce remained committed to this cause despite frustration and hostility. He was supported by fellow members of the <a href="/wiki/Clapham_Sect" title="Clapham Sect">Clapham Sect</a>, among whom was his best friend and cousin <a href="/wiki/Henry_Thornton_(abolitionist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Thornton (abolitionist)">Henry Thornton</a>.<a href="#cite_note-94">[93]</a><a href="#cite_note-95">[94]</a> Wilberforce accepted an invitation to share a house with Henry Thornton in 1792, moving into his own home after Thornton's marriage in 1796.<a href="#cite_note-96">[95]</a> Wilberforce, the Clapham Sect and others were anxious to demonstrate that Africans, and particularly freed slaves, had human and economic abilities beyond the slave trade and capable of sustaining a well-ordered society, trade and cultivation. Inspired in part by the utopian vision of <a href="/wiki/Granville_Sharp" title="Granville Sharp">Granville Sharp</a>, they became involved in the establishment in 1792 of a free colony in Sierra Leone with black settlers from Britain, Nova Scotia and Jamaica, as well as native Africans and some whites.<a href="#cite_note-Turner1997-97">[96]</a><a href="#cite_note-98">[97]</a> They formed the <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Leone_Company" title="Sierra Leone Company">Sierra Leone Company</a>, with Wilberforce subscribing liberally to the project in money and time.<a href="#cite_note-99">[98]</a> On 2 April 1792, Wilberforce brought another bill calling for abolition of the slave trade.<a href="#cite_note-100">[99]</a> <a href="/wiki/Henry_Dundas,_1st_Viscount_Melville" title="Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville">Henry Dundas</a>, as <a href="/wiki/Home_Secretary" title="Home Secretary">Home Secretary</a>, proposed a compromise solution of gradual abolition of the trade over several years. This was passed by 230 to 85 votes, but Wilberforce believed that it was little more than a clever ploy to ensure that total abolition would be delayed indefinitely.<a href="#cite_note-101">[100]</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[101]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="War_with_France">War with France</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: War with France">edit</a>]</div> On 26 February 1793, another vote to abolish the slave trade was narrowly defeated by eight votes. The outbreak of <a href="/wiki/First_Coalition" class="mw-redirect" title="First Coalition">war with France</a> the same month prevented further consideration of the issue, as politicians concentrated on the national crisis and the threat of invasion.<a href="#cite_note-103">[102]</a> The same year, and again in 1794, Wilberforce unsuccessfully brought before Parliament a bill to outlaw British ships from supplying enslaved people to foreign colonies.<a href="#cite_note-Turner1997-97">[96]</a><a href="#cite_note-104">[103]</a> He voiced his concern about the war and urged Pitt and his government to make greater efforts to end hostilities.<a href="#cite_note-105">[104]</a> Growing more alarmed, on 31 December 1794, Wilberforce moved that the government seek a peaceful resolution with France, a stance that created a temporary breach in his long friendship with Pitt.<a href="#cite_note-106">[105]</a> Abolition continued to be associated in the public consciousness with the French Revolution and with British radical groups, resulting in a decline in public support.<a href="#cite_note-107">[106]</a> Despite this, Wilberforce continued to introduce abolition bills throughout the 1790s.<a href="#cite_note-Hochschild_2005_252-108">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-Hague_2007_511-109">[108]</a> The early years of the 19th century saw an increased public interest in abolition.<a href="#cite_note-Ackerson_2005_12-110">[109]</a> In June 1804, Wilberforce's bill to abolish the slave trade successfully passed all its stages through the House of Commons. However, it was too late in the parliamentary session for it to complete its passage through the House of Lords. On its reintroduction during the 1805 session, it was defeated, with even the usually sympathetic Pitt failing to support it.<a href="#cite_note-111">[110]</a> On this occasion and throughout the campaign, abolition was held back by Wilberforce's trusting, even credulous nature, and his deferential attitude towards those in power. He found it difficult to believe that men of rank would not do what he perceived to be the right thing, and was reluctant to confront them when they did not.<a href="#cite_note-Hague_2007_511-109">[108]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Final_phase_of_the_campaign">Final phase of the campaign</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Final phase of the campaign">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Microcosm_of_London_Plate_021_-_House_of_Commons_(alt).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="see caption" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Microcosm_of_London_Plate_021_-_House_of_Commons_%28alt%29.jpg/220px-Microcosm_of_London_Plate_021_-_House_of_Commons_%28alt%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Microcosm_of_London_Plate_021_-_House_of_Commons_%28alt%29.jpg/330px-Microcosm_of_London_Plate_021_-_House_of_Commons_%28alt%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Microcosm_of_London_Plate_021_-_House_of_Commons_%28alt%29.jpg/440px-Microcosm_of_London_Plate_021_-_House_of_Commons_%28alt%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="846" data-file-height="622" /></a><figcaption>The House of Commons in Wilberforce's day by <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Pugin" title="Augustus Pugin">Augustus Pugin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Rowlandson" title="Thomas Rowlandson">Thomas Rowlandson</a> (1808–1811)</figcaption></figure> Following Pitt's death in January 1806, Wilberforce increased his collaboration with the Whigs, especially the abolitionists. He gave general support to the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_All_the_Talents" title="Ministry of All the Talents">Grenville–Fox administration</a>, which brought more abolitionists into the cabinet; Wilberforce and Charles Fox led the campaign in the House of Commons.<a href="#cite_note-Turner1997-97">[96]</a><a href="#cite_note-112">[111]</a> A radical change of tactics, which involved the introduction of a bill to ban British subjects from aiding or participating in the slave trade to the <a href="/wiki/French_colonies" class="mw-redirect" title="French colonies">French colonies</a>, was suggested by the maritime lawyer James Stephen.<a href="#cite_note-113">[112]</a> A bill was introduced and approved by the cabinet, and Wilberforce and other abolitionists maintained a self-imposed silence, so as not to draw any attention to the effect of the bill.<a href="#cite_note-114">[113]</a><a href="#cite_note-115">[114]</a> The approach was successful and the Foreign Slave Trade Bill received <a href="/wiki/Royal_assent" title="Royal assent">royal assent</a> on 23 May 1806.<a href="#cite_note-Pollock_1977_211-116">[115]</a> Wilberforce and Clarkson collected a large volume of evidence against the slave trade over the previous two decades, and Wilberforce spent the latter part of 1806 writing A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, which was a comprehensive restatement of the abolitionists' case.<a href="#cite_note-117">[116]</a> Wilberforce was re-elected as an MP for Yorkshire in the <a href="/wiki/1806_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1806 United Kingdom general election">1806 United Kingdom general election</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Hague_2007_348-118">[117]</a> after which he returned to finishing and publishing his Letter, a 400-page book which formed the basis for the final phase of the campaign.<a href="#cite_note-119">[118]</a> Lord Grenville, the Prime Minister, successfully introduced an Abolition Bill in the House of Lords first,<a href="#cite_note-Hague_2007_348-118">[117]</a> then <a href="/wiki/Charles_Grey,_2nd_Earl_Grey" title="Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey">Charles Grey</a> moved for a second reading in the Commons on 23 February 1807. As tributes were made to Wilberforce, whose face streamed with tears, the bill was carried by 283 votes to 16.<a href="#cite_note-Pollock_1977_211-116">[115]</a><a href="#cite_note-120">[119]</a> Excited supporters suggested taking advantage of the large majority to seek the abolition of slavery itself, but Wilberforce made it clear that total emancipation was not the immediate goal.<a href="#cite_note-121">[120]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a>]</div> In his youth, William Wilberforce showed little interest in women, but when he was in his late thirties his friend <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Babington" title="Thomas Babington">Thomas Babington</a> recommended 25-year-old <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Spooner_Wilberforce" class="mw-redirect" title="Barbara Spooner Wilberforce">Barbara Ann Spooner</a> (1771–1847) as a potential bride.<a href="#cite_note-122">[121]</a><a href="#cite_note-123">[122]</a> Wilberforce met her two days later on 15 April 1797, and was immediately smitten;<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> following an eight-day whirlwind romance, he proposed.<a href="#cite_note-124">[123]</a> Despite the urgings of friends to slow down, the couple married at the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Swithin,_Bath" title="Church of St Swithin, Bath">Church of St Swithin</a> in Bath, Somerset, on 30 May 1797.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> They were devoted to each other, and Barbara was very attentive and supportive to Wilberforce in his increasing ill health, though she showed little interest in his political activities.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> They had six children in fewer than ten years: <a href="/wiki/William_Wilberforce_(1798%E2%80%931879)" title="William Wilberforce (1798–1879)">William</a> (born 1798), Barbara (born 1799), Elizabeth (born 1801), <a href="/wiki/Robert_Isaac_Wilberforce" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Isaac Wilberforce">Robert</a> (born 1802), <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Wilberforce" title="Samuel Wilberforce">Samuel</a> (born 1805) and <a href="/wiki/Henry_William_Wilberforce" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry William Wilberforce">Henry</a> (born 1807).<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> Wilberforce was an indulgent and adoring father who revelled in his time at home and at play with his children.<a href="#cite_note-125">[124]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_concerns">Other concerns</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Other concerns">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_and_social_reform">Political and social reform</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Political and social reform">edit</a>]</div> Wilberforce was highly conservative on many political and social issues. He advocated change in society through Christianity and improvement in morals, education and religion, fearing and opposing radical causes and revolution.<a href="#cite_note-Hague_2007_446-46">[45]</a> The radical writer <a href="/wiki/William_Cobbett" title="William Cobbett">William Cobbett</a> was among those who attacked what they saw as Wilberforce's hypocrisy in campaigning for better working conditions for enslaved people while British workers lived in terrible conditions at home.<a href="#cite_note-126">[125]</a> Critics noted Wilberforce's support of the suspension of <a href="/wiki/Habeas_corpus" title="Habeas corpus">habeas corpus</a> in 1795 and his votes for Pitt's "Gagging Bills", which banned meetings of more than 50 people, allowing speakers to be arrested and imposing harsh penalties on those who attacked the constitution.<a href="#cite_note-Hind1987-127">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-128">[127]</a> Wilberforce was opposed to giving <a href="/wiki/Workers%27_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Workers' rights">workers' rights</a> to organise into unions, in 1799 speaking in favour of the <a href="/wiki/Combination_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Combination Act">Combination Act</a>, which suppressed trade union activity throughout Britain, and calling unions "a general disease in our society".<a href="#cite_note-Hind1987-127">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-129">[128]</a> He also opposed an <a href="/wiki/Public_inquiry" title="Public inquiry">enquiry</a> into the 1819 <a href="/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre" title="Peterloo Massacre">Peterloo Massacre</a> in which eleven protesters were killed at a political rally demanding reform.<a href="#cite_note-130">[129]</a> Concerned about "bad men who wished to produce anarchy and confusion", he approved of the government's <a href="/wiki/Six_Acts" title="Six Acts">Six Acts</a>, which further limited public meetings and <a href="/wiki/Sedition" title="Sedition">seditious writings</a>.<a href="#cite_note-131">[130]</a><a href="#cite_note-132">[131]</a> Wilberforce's actions led the essayist <a href="/wiki/William_Hazlitt" title="William Hazlitt">William Hazlitt</a> to condemn him as one "who preaches vital Christianity to untutored savages, and tolerates its worst abuses in civilised states."<a href="#cite_note-133">[132]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Thomas_Lawrence02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="An unfinished oil portrait of Wilberforce. The face and shoulders are painted, while the rest of the portrait contains a sketched outline." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Sir_Thomas_Lawrence02.jpg/220px-Sir_Thomas_Lawrence02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="283" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Sir_Thomas_Lawrence02.jpg/330px-Sir_Thomas_Lawrence02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Sir_Thomas_Lawrence02.jpg/440px-Sir_Thomas_Lawrence02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="466" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Unfinished portrait by <a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Lawrence" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Thomas Lawrence">Sir Thomas Lawrence</a>, 1828</figcaption></figure> Wilberforce's views of women and religion were also conservative. He disapproved of women anti-slavery activists such as <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Heyrick" title="Elizabeth Heyrick">Elizabeth Heyrick</a>, who organised women's abolitionist groups in the 1820s, protesting: "[F]or ladies to meet, to publish, to go from house to house stirring up petitions—these appear to me proceedings unsuited to the female character as delineated in Scripture."<a href="#cite_note-134">[133]</a><a href="#cite_note-135">[134]</a> Wilberforce initially strongly opposed bills for <a href="/wiki/Catholic_emancipation" title="Catholic emancipation">Catholic emancipation</a>, which would have allowed Catholics to become MPs, hold public office and serve in the army,<a href="#cite_note-136">[135]</a> although by 1813, he had changed his views and spoke in favour of a similar bill.<a href="#cite_note-137">[136]</a> Wilberforce advocated legislation to improve the working conditions for chimney-sweeps and textile workers, engaged in <a href="/wiki/Prison_reform" title="Prison reform">prison reform</a>, and supported campaigns to restrict <a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment">capital punishment</a> and the severe punishments meted out under the <a href="/wiki/Game_law" title="Game law">Game laws</a>.<a href="#cite_note-138">[137]</a><a href="#cite_note-Devereaux2015-50">[49]</a> He recognised the importance of education in alleviating poverty, and when <a href="/wiki/Hannah_More" title="Hannah More">Hannah More</a> and her sister established <a href="/wiki/Sunday_school" title="Sunday school">Sunday schools</a> for the poor in <a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mendip_Hills" title="Mendip Hills">Mendips</a>, he provided financial and moral support as they faced opposition from landowners and Anglican clergy.<a href="#cite_note-139">[138]</a><a href="#cite_note-140">[139]</a> From the late 1780s onward, Wilberforce campaigned for limited parliamentary reform, such as the abolition of <a href="/wiki/Rotten_boroughs" class="mw-redirect" title="Rotten boroughs">rotten boroughs</a> and the redistribution of Commons seats to growing towns and cities, though by 1832, he feared that such measures went too far.<a href="#cite_note-Hind1987-127">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-141">[140]</a> With others, Wilberforce founded the world's first <a href="/wiki/Animal_welfare" title="Animal welfare">animal welfare</a> organisation, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (later the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_for_the_Prevention_of_Cruelty_to_Animals" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals">Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals</a>).<a href="#cite_note-Tomkins_2007_207-142">[141]</a> He was also opposed to <a href="/wiki/Duelling" class="mw-redirect" title="Duelling">duelling</a>, which he described as the "disgrace of a Christian society" and was appalled when his friend Pitt engaged in a duel with <a href="/wiki/George_Tierney" title="George Tierney">George Tierney</a> in 1798, particularly as it occurred on a Sunday, the Christian day of rest.<a href="#cite_note-143">[142]</a><a href="#cite_note-144">[143]</a> Wilberforce was generous with his time and money, believing that those with wealth had a duty to give a significant portion of their income to the needy. Yearly, he gave away thousands of pounds, much of it to clergymen to distribute in their parishes. He paid off the debts of others, supported education and <a href="/wiki/Mission_(Christian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mission (Christian)">missions</a>, and in a year of food shortages, gave to charity more than his own yearly income. He was exceptionally hospitable, and could not bear to sack any of his servants. As a result, his home was full of old and incompetent servants kept on in charity. Although he was often months behind in his correspondence, Wilberforce responded to numerous requests for advice or for help in obtaining professorships, military promotions and livings for clergymen, or for the reprieve of death sentences.<a href="#cite_note-145">[144]</a><a href="#cite_note-146">[145]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Evangelical_Christianity">Evangelical Christianity</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Evangelical Christianity">edit</a>]</div> A supporter of the evangelical wing of the Church of England, Wilberforce believed that the revitalisation of the church and individual Christian observance would lead to a harmonious, moral society.<a href="#cite_note-Hind1987-127">[126]</a> He sought to elevate the status of religion in public and private life, making piety fashionable in both the upper- and middle-classes of society.<a href="#cite_note-147">[146]</a> To this end, in April 1797, Wilberforce published A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes of This Country Contrasted With Real Christianity, on which he had been working since 1793. This was an exposition of <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> doctrine and teachings and a call for a revival of Christianity, as a response to the moral decline of the nation, illustrating his own testimony and the views which inspired him. The book was influential and a best-seller; 7,500 copies were sold within six months, and it was translated into several languages.<a href="#cite_note-148">[147]</a><a href="#cite_note-149">[148]</a> Wilberforce fostered and supported missionary activity in Britain and abroad, and was involved with other members of the Clapham Sect in various evangelical and charitable organisations. He was a founding member of the <a href="/wiki/Church_Mission_Society" title="Church Mission Society">Church Missionary Society</a> (since renamed the Church Mission Society)<a href="#cite_note-150">[149]</a><a href="#cite_note-151">[150]</a> and an early vice-president of the <a href="/wiki/Church%27s_Ministry_Among_Jewish_People" title="Church's Ministry Among Jewish People">London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews</a> (later the Church's Ministry Among Jewish People).<a href="#cite_note-152">[151]</a><a href="#cite_note-153">[152]</a><a href="#cite_note-154">[153]</a> Horrified by the lack of Christian evangelism in India, Wilberforce used the 1793 renewal of the <a href="/wiki/British_East_India_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="British East India Company">British East India Company</a>'s charter to propose the addition of clauses requiring the company to provide teachers and chaplains and to commit to the "religious improvement" of Indians. The plan was unsuccessful due to lobbying by the directors of the company, who feared that their commercial interests would be damaged.<a href="#cite_note-155">[154]</a><a href="#cite_note-156">[155]</a> Wilberforce tried again in 1813 when the charter next came up for renewal. Using petitions, meetings, lobbying and letter writing, he successfully campaigned for changes to the charter.<a href="#cite_note-Hind1987-127">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-Tomkins_2007_187–188-157">[156]</a> Speaking in favour of the <a href="/wiki/British_East_India_Company#Charter_Act_1813" class="mw-redirect" title="British East India Company">Charter Act 1813</a>, he criticised the East India Company and their rule in India for its hypocrisy and racial prejudice, while also condemning aspects of <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> including the <a href="/wiki/Caste_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Caste system">caste system</a>, <a href="/wiki/Infanticide" title="Infanticide">infanticide</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polygamy" title="Polygamy">polygamy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sati_(practise)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sati (practise)">sati</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Tomkins_2007_187–188-157">[156]</a><a href="#cite_note-158">[157]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Moral_reform">Moral reform</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Moral reform">edit</a>]</div> Greatly concerned by what he perceived to be the degeneracy of British society, Wilberforce was active in matters of moral reform, lobbying against "the torrent of profaneness that every day makes more rapid advances", and considered this issue and the abolition of the slave trade as equally important goals.<a href="#cite_note-159">[158]</a> At the suggestion of Wilberforce and <a href="/wiki/Beilby_Porteus" title="Beilby Porteus">Bishop Porteus</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George III of the United Kingdom">King George III</a> was requested by the <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a> to issue in 1787 <a href="/wiki/Proclamation_For_the_Encouragement_of_Piety_and_Virtue" title="Proclamation For the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue">A Proclamation for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue</a>, as a remedy for the rising tide of immorality.<a href="#cite_note-160">[159]</a><a href="#cite_note-161">[160]</a><a href="#cite_note-Devereaux2015-50">[49]</a> The proclamation commanded the prosecution of those guilty of "excessive drinking, blasphemy, profane swearing and cursing, lewdness, <a href="/wiki/Sabbath_breaking" class="mw-redirect" title="Sabbath breaking">profanation of the Lord's Day</a>, and other dissolute, immoral, or disorderly practices".<a href="#cite_note-162">[161]</a><a href="#cite_note-Devereaux2015-50">[49]</a> Greeted largely with public indifference, Wilberforce sought to increase its impact by mobilising public figures to the cause,<a href="#cite_note-Hague_2007_108-163">[162]</a><a href="#cite_note-Devereaux2015-50">[49]</a> and by founding the <a href="/wiki/Society_for_the_Suppression_of_Vice" title="Society for the Suppression of Vice">Society for the Suppression of Vice</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Hague_2007_108-163">[162]</a><a href="#cite_note-164">[163]</a> This and other societies in which Wilberforce was a prime mover, mustered support for the prosecution of those who had been charged with violating relevant laws, including brothel keepers, distributors of pornographic material, and those who did not respect the Sabbath.<a href="#cite_note-Hind1987-127">[126]</a> The writer and clergyman <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Smith" title="Sydney Smith">Sydney Smith</a> criticised Wilberforce for being more interested in the sins of the poor than those of the rich, and suggested that a better name would be the "Society for suppressing the vices of persons whose income does not exceed £500 per annum".<a href="#cite_note-Tomkins_2007_55-60">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-165">[164]</a> Wilberforce's attempts to legislate against adultery and Sunday newspapers were also in vain; his involvement and leadership in other, less punitive, approaches were more successful in the long-term, however. By the end of his life, British morals, manners, and sense of social responsibility had increased, paving the way for future changes in societal conventions and attitudes during the Victorian era.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-Hind1987-127">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-166">[165]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Emancipation_of_enslaved_Africans">Emancipation of enslaved Africans</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Emancipation of enslaved Africans">edit</a>]</div> Wilberforce worked with the members of the <a href="/wiki/African_Institution" title="African Institution">African Institution</a> to ensure the enforcement of the abolition of the slave trade and to promote abolitionist negotiations with other countries.<a href="#cite_note-Hind1987-127">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-167">[166]</a><a href="#cite_note-168">[167]</a> In particular, the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> had abolished the slave trade after 1808 and Wilberforce lobbied the American government to enforce its own mandated prohibition more strongly.<a href="#cite_note-169">[168]</a> The same year, Wilberforce moved his family from Clapham to a sizeable mansion with a large garden in <a href="/wiki/Kensington_Gore" title="Kensington Gore">Kensington Gore</a>, closer to the Houses of Parliament. In worsening health by 1812, Wilberforce <a href="/wiki/Resignation_from_the_British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="Resignation from the British House of Commons">resigned his Yorkshire seat</a>, and became MP for the <a href="/wiki/Rotten_borough" class="mw-redirect" title="Rotten borough">rotten borough</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bramber_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bramber (UK Parliament constituency)">Bramber</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sussex" title="Sussex">Sussex</a>, a seat with little or no constituency obligations, thus allowing him more time for his family and the causes that interested him.<a href="#cite_note-170">[169]</a> From 1816, Wilberforce introduced a series of bills which would require the compulsory registration of enslaved people, together with details of their country of origin, permitting the illegal importation of foreign slaves to be detected. Later in the same year he began to publicly denounce slavery itself, though he did not demand immediate emancipation, believing incremental change to be more effective in achieving abolition.<a href="#cite_note-171">[170]</a> In 1820, after a period of poor health and with his eyesight failing, Wilberforce further limited public activities,<a href="#cite_note-Pollock_1977_279-172">[171]</a> although he became embroiled in unsuccessful mediation attempts between <a href="/wiki/George_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George IV of the United Kingdom">King George IV</a>, and his estranged wife <a href="/wiki/Caroline_of_Brunswick" title="Caroline of Brunswick">Caroline of Brunswick</a>, who had sought her rights as queen of the realm.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> Wilberforce still hoped "to lay a foundation for some future measures for the emancipation of the poor slaves".<a href="#cite_note-173">[172]</a> Aware that the cause would need younger men to continue the work, in 1821 he asked MP <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Fowell_Buxton" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Fowell Buxton">Thomas Fowell Buxton</a> to take over leadership of the campaign in the Commons.<a href="#cite_note-Pollock_1977_279-172">[171]</a> As the 1820s continued, Wilberforce increasingly became more of a figurehead for the abolitionist movement, although he continued to appear at anti-slavery meetings, welcoming visitors, and maintaining a busy correspondence on the subject.<a href="#cite_note-174">[173]</a><a href="#cite_note-175">[174]</a><a href="#cite_note-176">[175]</a> In 1823 Wilberforce's 56-page "Appeal to the Religion, Justice and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire in Behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies" was published.<a href="#cite_note-177">[176]</a> The treatise stated that total emancipation was morally and ethically required and that slavery was a national crime which must be ended by parliamentary legislation to gradually abolish slavery.<a href="#cite_note-178">[177]</a> Members of Parliament did not agree, and government opposition in March 1823 stymied Wilberforce's call for abolition.<a href="#cite_note-179">[178]</a> On 15 May 1823, Buxton moved another resolution in Parliament for gradual emancipation.<a href="#cite_note-180">[179]</a> Subsequent debates followed on 16 March and 11 June 1824 in which Wilberforce made his last speeches in the House of Commons, and which again saw the emancipationists outmanoeuvred by the government.<a href="#cite_note-181">[180]</a><a href="#cite_note-182">[181]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Last_years">Last years</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Last years">edit</a>]</div> Wilberforce's health was continuing to fail, and he suffered further illnesses in 1824 and 1825. With his family concerned that his life was endangered, he declined a <a href="/wiki/Peerage" title="Peerage">peerage</a><a href="#cite_note-184">[b]</a> and resigned his seat in Parliament, leaving the campaign to others.<a href="#cite_note-Tomkins_2007_207-142">[141]</a><a href="#cite_note-185">[183]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wilberforce.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A marble statue of Wilberforce, with an inscription beneath it" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Wilberforce.jpg/180px-Wilberforce.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="361" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Wilberforce.jpg/270px-Wilberforce.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Wilberforce.jpg/360px-Wilberforce.jpg 2x" data-file-width="474" data-file-height="950" /></a><figcaption>Wilberforce was buried in <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a> next to Pitt. This memorial statue, by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Joseph_(sculptor)" title="Samuel Joseph (sculptor)">Samuel Joseph (1791–1850)</a>, was erected in 1840 in the north choir aisle.</figcaption></figure> In 1826, Wilberforce moved from his large house in Kensington Gore to Hendon Park, a more modest property in the countryside of <a href="/wiki/Mill_Hill" title="Mill Hill">Mill Hill</a>, north of London,<a href="#cite_note-Hendon:_Other_estates-186">[184]</a><a href="#cite_note-Tomkins_2007_207-142">[141]</a> where he was joined by his son William and family. William had attempted a series of educational and career paths, and a venture into farming in 1830 led to huge losses, which his father repaid in full, despite offers from others to assist. This left Wilberforce with little income, and he was obliged to let his home and spend the rest of his life visiting family members and friends.<a href="#cite_note-187">[185]</a> He continued his support for the anti-slavery cause, including attending and chairing meetings of the Anti-Slavery Society.<a href="#cite_note-188">[186]</a> Wilberforce approved of the 1830 election victory of the more progressive Whigs, though he was concerned about the implications of their Reform Bill which proposed the redistribution of parliamentary seats towards newer towns and cities and an extension of the franchise.<a href="#cite_note-189">[187]</a> In 1833, Wilberforce's health declined further and he suffered a severe attack of <a href="/wiki/Influenza" title="Influenza">influenza</a> from which he never fully recovered.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a> He made a final anti-slavery speech in April 1833 at a public meeting in <a href="/wiki/Maidstone" title="Maidstone">Maidstone</a>, Kent.<a href="#cite_note-190">[188]</a> The following month, the Whig government introduced the <a href="/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833" title="Slavery Abolition Act 1833">Bill for the Abolition of Slavery</a>, formally saluting Wilberforce in the process.<a href="#cite_note-191">[189]</a> On 26 July 1833, Wilberforce heard of government concessions that guaranteed the passing of the Bill for the Abolition of Slavery.<a href="#cite_note-192">[190]</a> The following day he grew much weaker, and he died early on the morning of 29 July at his cousin's house in <a href="/wiki/Cadogan_Place" title="Cadogan Place">Cadogan Place</a>, London.<a href="#cite_note-193">[191]</a><a href="#cite_note-194">[192]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Funeral">Funeral</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Funeral">edit</a>]</div> Wilberforce had left instructions that he be buried with his sister and daughter at <a href="/wiki/The_Old_Church_(Stoke_Newington)" title="The Old Church (Stoke Newington)">St Mary's Church</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stoke_Newington" title="Stoke Newington">Stoke Newington</a>, just north of London. However, the leading members of both Houses of Parliament urged that he be honoured with a burial in <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a>. The family agreed and, on 3 August 1833, Wilberforce was buried in the north transept, close to his friend William Pitt.<a href="#cite_note-195">[193]</a><a href="#cite_note-196">[194]</a> The funeral was attended by many Members of Parliament, as well as by members of the public. The pallbearers included the <a href="/wiki/Prince_William_Frederick,_Duke_of_Gloucester_and_Edinburgh" title="Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh">Duke of Gloucester</a>, the Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham, and the Speaker of the House of Commons <a href="/wiki/Charles_Manners-Sutton,_1st_Viscount_Canterbury" title="Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury">Charles Manners-Sutton</a>.<a href="#cite_note-197">[195]</a><a href="#cite_note-198">[196]</a><a href="#cite_note-199">[197]</a> While tributes were paid and Wilberforce was laid to rest, both Houses of Parliament suspended their business as a mark of respect.<a href="#cite_note-200">[198]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Legacy">edit</a>]</div> Five years after his death, sons Robert and Samuel Wilberforce published a five-volume biography about their father, and subsequently a collection of his letters in 1840. The biography was controversial in that the authors emphasised Wilberforce's role in the abolition movement and played down the important work of Thomas Clarkson. Clarkson wrote a book refuting their version of events, and the sons eventually made a half-hearted private apology to him and removed the offending passages in a revision of their biography.<a href="#cite_note-201">[199]</a><a href="#cite_note-202">[200]</a><a href="#cite_note-203">[201]</a> For more than a century, Wilberforce's role in the campaign dominated the historical record. Later historians have noted the warm and highly productive relationship between Clarkson and Wilberforce, and have termed it one of history's great partnerships: without both the parliamentary leadership supplied by Wilberforce and the research and public mobilisation organised by Clarkson, abolition could not have been achieved.<a href="#cite_note-Brogan2011-63">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-204">[202]</a><a href="#cite_note-205">[203]</a> As his sons had desired and planned, Wilberforce has long been viewed as a Christian hero, a statesman-saint held up as a role model for putting his faith into action.<a href="#cite_note-Wolffe2009-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-206">[204]</a><a href="#cite_note-207">[205]</a> Contemporary evangelical and conservative movements in North America appropriate his name and example in their activism.<a href="#cite_note-208">[206]</a><a href="#cite_note-209">[207]</a><a href="#cite_note-Kingston2018-210">[208]</a> The strategies of Wilberforce and other abolitionists are invoked by anti-abortion activists, who controversially equate the abolition of slavery with ending abortion.<a href="#cite_note-211">[209]</a><a href="#cite_note-212">[210]</a><a href="#cite_note-213">[211]</a><a href="#cite_note-Kingston2018-210">[208]</a> Wilberforce has also been described as a humanitarian reformer who contributed to reshaping the political and social attitudes of the time by promoting concepts of <a href="/wiki/Social_responsibility" title="Social responsibility">social responsibility</a> and action.<a href="#cite_note-Hind1987-127">[126]</a> In the 1940s, the role of Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect in abolition was downplayed by historian <a href="/wiki/Eric_Williams" title="Eric Williams">Eric Williams</a>, who argued that abolition was motivated not by humanitarianism but by economics, as the West Indian sugar industry was in decline.<a href="#cite_note-Pinfold2007-55">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-214">[212]</a> Williams's approach strongly influenced historians for much of the latter part of the 20th century. More recent historians have noted that the sugar industry was still making large profits at the time of the abolition of the slave trade, and this has led to a renewed interest in Wilberforce and the evangelicals, as well as a recognition of the anti-slavery movement as a prototype for subsequent humanitarian campaigns.<a href="#cite_note-Pinfold2007-55">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-215">[213]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Memorials">Memorials</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Memorials">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wilberforce_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="see caption" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Wilberforce_1.jpg/130px-Wilberforce_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="321" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Wilberforce_1.jpg/195px-Wilberforce_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Wilberforce_1.jpg/260px-Wilberforce_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="708" data-file-height="1750" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Wilberforce_Monument" title="Wilberforce Monument">Wilberforce Monument</a> in the grounds of <a href="/wiki/Hull_College" title="Hull College">Hull College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull" title="Kingston upon Hull">Hull</a>, erected in 1834</figcaption></figure> In 2019, St Clements University, which is registered in the Turks & Caicos Islands (British West Indies), founded the William Wilberforce Centre for Law and Religion.<a href="#cite_note-216">[214]</a> Wilberforce's life and work have been commemorated in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. In Westminster Abbey, a seated statue of Wilberforce by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Joseph_(sculptor)" title="Samuel Joseph (sculptor)">Samuel Joseph</a> was erected in 1840, bearing an epitaph praising his Christian character and his long labour to abolish the slave trade and slavery.<a href="#cite_note-217">[215]</a> In Wilberforce's hometown of Hull, a public subscription in 1834 funded the <a href="/wiki/Wilberforce_Monument" title="Wilberforce Monument">Wilberforce Monument</a>, a 31-metre (102 ft) <a href="/wiki/Greek_Doric" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Doric">Greek Doric</a> column topped by a statue of Wilberforce, which stands in the grounds of <a href="/wiki/Hull_College" title="Hull College">Hull College</a> near <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Gardens,_Hull" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's Gardens, Hull">Queen's Gardens</a>.<a href="#cite_note-218">[216]</a> Wilberforce Memorial School for the Blind in York was established in 1833 in his honour.<a href="#cite_note-219">[217]</a> Wilberforce's birthplace was acquired by the city corporation in 1903 and, following renovation, Wilberforce House in Hull was opened as Britain's first slavery museum.<a href="#cite_note-220">[218]</a> In 2006, the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Hull" title="University of Hull">University of Hull</a> established the <a href="/wiki/Wilberforce_Institute_for_the_Study_of_Slavery_and_Emancipation" title="Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation">Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation</a> in a building beside Wilberforce House.<a href="#cite_note-221">[219]</a><a href="#cite_note-222">[220]</a> Various churches within the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican Communion</a> commemorate Wilberforce in their liturgical calendars,<a href="#cite_note-223">[221]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wilberforce_University" title="Wilberforce University">Wilberforce University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>, United States, founded in 1856, is named after him. The university was the first owned by <a href="/wiki/African-American" class="mw-redirect" title="African-American">African-American</a> people, and is an <a href="/wiki/HBCU" class="mw-redirect" title="HBCU">historically black college</a>.<a href="#cite_note-224">[222]</a><a href="#cite_note-225">[223]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Ontario,_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Ontario, Canada">Ontario, Canada</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Wilberforce_Colony" title="Wilberforce Colony">Wilberforce Colony</a> was founded by black reformers, and inhabited by freed slaves from the United States.<a href="#cite_note-226">[224]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_media">In media</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: In media">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Grace_(2006_film)" title="Amazing Grace (2006 film)">Amazing Grace</a>, a film about Wilberforce and the struggle against the slave trade, was released in 2007 to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Parliament's anti-slave trade legislation.<a href="#cite_note-227">[225]</a><a href="#cite_note-228">[226]</a></li> <li>In 2007, <a href="/wiki/Focus_on_the_Family" title="Focus on the Family">Focus on the Family</a> produced an audio drama called Grace Victorious: The Story of William Wilberforce, starring <a href="/wiki/Chris_Larkin" title="Chris Larkin">Chris Larkin</a> as Wilberforce.<a href="#cite_note-229">[227]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Works">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1">Wilberforce, William (1797). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-usOAAAAIAAJ">A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity</a>. London: T. Caddell.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Practical+View+of+the+Prevailing+Religious+System+of+Professed+Christians%2C+in+the+Middle+and+Higher+Classes+in+this+Country%2C+Contrasted+with+Real+Christianity&rft.place=London&rft.pub=T.+Caddell&rft.date=1797&rft.aulast=Wilberforce&rft.aufirst=William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D-usOAAAAIAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Wilberforce" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Wilberforce, William (1807). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=G6UNAAAAQAAJ">A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, Addressed to the Freeholders of Yorkshire</a>. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, J. Hatchard.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Letter+on+the+Abolition+of+the+Slave+Trade%2C+Addressed+to+the+Freeholders+of+Yorkshire&rft.place=London&rft.pub=T.+Cadell+and+W.+Davies%2C+J.+Hatchard&rft.date=1807&rft.aulast=Wilberforce&rft.aufirst=William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DG6UNAAAAQAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Wilberforce" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Wilberforce, William (1823). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kBAUAAAAIAAJ">An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire in behalf of the Negro slaves in the West Indies</a>. London: J. Hatchard and Son.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=An+Appeal+to+the+Religion%2C+Justice%2C+and+Humanity+of+the+Inhabitants+of+the+British+Empire+in+behalf+of+the+Negro+slaves+in+the+West+Indies&rft.place=London&rft.pub=J.+Hatchard+and+Son&rft.date=1823&rft.aulast=Wilberforce&rft.aufirst=William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DkBAUAAAAIAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Wilberforce" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilberforce&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid 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frequent exports from Hull to the Baltic countries, with timber, iron ore, yarns, hemp, wine and manufactured goods being imported to Britain on the return journey.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHague20073-230">[228]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-184"><a href="#cite_ref-184">^</a> According to <a href="/wiki/George_W._E._Russell" title="George W. E. Russell">George W. E. 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The African Institution (1807–1827) and the Antislavery Movement in Great Britain. <a href="/wiki/Lewiston,_New_York" title="Lewiston, New York">Lewiston, New York</a>: <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Mellen_Press" title="Edwin Mellen Press">Edwin Mellen Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7734-6129-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7734-6129-1"><bdi>978-0-7734-6129-1</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/58546501">58546501</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+African+Institution+%281807%E2%80%931827%29+and+the+Antislavery+Movement+in+Great+Britain&rft.place=Lewiston%2C+New+York&rft.pub=Edwin+Mellen+Press&rft.date=2005&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F58546501&rft.isbn=978-0-7734-6129-1&rft.aulast=Ackerson&rft.aufirst=Wayne&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Wilberforce" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrown2006" class="citation book cs1">Brown, Christopher Leslie (2006). Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8078-5698-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8078-5698-7"><bdi>978-0-8078-5698-7</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/62290468">62290468</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Moral+Capital%3A+Foundations+of+British+Abolitionism&rft.place=Chapel+Hill&rft.pub=University+of+North+Carolina+Press&rft.date=2006&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F62290468&rft.isbn=978-0-8078-5698-7&rft.aulast=Brown&rft.aufirst=Christopher+Leslie&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Wilberforce" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFD'Anjou1996" class="citation book cs1">D'Anjou, Leo (1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/socialmovementsc0000danj">Social Movements and Cultural Change: The First Abolition Campaign Revisited</a>. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-202-30522-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-202-30522-6"><bdi>978-0-202-30522-6</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/34151187">34151187</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Social+Movements+and+Cultural+Change%3A+The+First+Abolition+Campaign+Revisited&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Aldine+de+Gruyter&rft.date=1996&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F34151187&rft.isbn=978-0-202-30522-6&rft.aulast=D%27Anjou&rft.aufirst=Leo&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fsocialmovementsc0000danj&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Wilberforce" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHague2007" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/William_Hague" title="William Hague">Hague, William</a> (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/williamwilberfor00hagu">William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner</a>. London: HarperPress. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-00-722885-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-00-722885-0"><bdi>978-0-00-722885-0</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/80331607">80331607</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=William+Wilberforce%3A+The+Life+of+the+Great+Anti-Slave+Trade+Campaigner&rft.place=London&rft.pub=HarperPress&rft.date=2007&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F80331607&rft.isbn=978-0-00-722885-0&rft.aulast=Hague&rft.aufirst=William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fwilliamwilberfor00hagu&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Wilberforce" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHochschild2005" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Adam_Hochschild" title="Adam Hochschild">Hochschild, Adam</a> (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/burychainsbritis0000hoch">Bury the Chains, The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery</a>. London: Macmillan. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-48581-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-48581-4"><bdi>978-0-330-48581-4</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/60458010">60458010</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bury+the+Chains%2C+The+British+Struggle+to+Abolish+Slavery&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Macmillan&rft.date=2005&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F60458010&rft.isbn=978-0-330-48581-4&rft.aulast=Hochschild&rft.aufirst=Adam&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fburychainsbritis0000hoch&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Wilberforce" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOldfield2007" class="citation book cs1">Oldfield, John (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/chordsoffreedomc0000oldf">Chords of Freedom: Commemoration, Ritual and British Transatlantic Slavery</a>. Manchester: Manchester University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7190-6664-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7190-6664-1"><bdi>978-0-7190-6664-1</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/132318401">132318401</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Chords+of+Freedom%3A+Commemoration%2C+Ritual+and+British+Transatlantic+Slavery&rft.place=Manchester&rft.pub=Manchester+University+Press&rft.date=2007&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F132318401&rft.isbn=978-0-7190-6664-1&rft.aulast=Oldfield&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fchordsoffreedomc0000oldf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Wilberforce" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPollock1977" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Pollock_(author)" title="John Pollock (author)">Pollock, John</a> (1977). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/wilberforce0000unse">Wilberforce</a>. New York: St. Martin's Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-09-460780-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-09-460780-4"><bdi>978-0-09-460780-4</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/3738175">3738175</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Wilberforce&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=St.+Martin%27s+Press&rft.date=1977&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F3738175&rft.isbn=978-0-09-460780-4&rft.aulast=Pollock&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fwilberforce0000unse&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Wilberforce" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTomkins2007" class="citation book cs1">Tomkins, Stephen (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/williamwilberfor0000tomk">William Wilberforce – A Biography</a>. Oxford: Lion. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-09-460780-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-09-460780-4"><bdi>978-0-09-460780-4</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/72149062">72149062</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=William+Wilberforce+%E2%80%93+A+Biography&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Lion&rft.date=2007&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F72149062&rft.isbn=978-0-09-460780-4&rft.aulast=Tomkins&rft.aufirst=Stephen&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fwilliamwilberfor0000tomk&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Wilberforce" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilberforceWilberforce1838" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Isaac_Wilberforce" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Isaac Wilberforce">Wilberforce, R. I</a>; <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Wilberforce" title="Samuel Wilberforce">Wilberforce, S.</a> (1838). The Life of William Wilberforce. London: John Murray. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/4023508">4023508</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Life+of+William+Wilberforce&rft.place=London&rft.pub=John+Murray&rft.date=1838&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F4023508&rft.aulast=Wilberforce&rft.aufirst=R.+I&rft.au=Wilberforce%2C+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Wilberforce" class="Z3988"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lifewilliamwilb05wilbgoog">Volume 1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lifewilliamwilb02wilbgoog">Volume 2</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=g-eSS5b8zJcC&q=Life+of+william+wilberforce+volume+3">Volume 3</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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