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  • He was born in Hull on the 24th August 1759.
  • He was the son of a wealthy merchant.
  • He studied at Cambridge University.
  • In 1780, he became Member of Parliament for Hull, later he represented Yorkshire.
  • He was a deeply religious English MP.
  • He was influenced to act against the slave trade by Thomas Clarkson
  • He risked everything to speak up for the slaves who couldn't. He said that God made men equal and we should live by that
  • The British campaign to abolish slavery started at the beginning of the 1780s. William Wilberforce joined the movement in the mid 1780s. The British government abolished slavery in just three days before he died.
  • His campaign to abolish slavery took 50 years to accomplish.
  • He died on 29th July 1833.
  • In 2004, he was named the greatest ever Yorkshire man because of his driving force behind the abolition of the slave trade.
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