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Press Room News / William Wilberforce

Death of William Wilberforce

By John Stonestreet and Kasey Leander 190 years ago today, the great British parliamentarian and abolitionist William Wilberforce died at the home of his cousin near Westminster, London. Three days earlier, Parliament had passed the Slavery Abolition Act, which...

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