Bury the Chains

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William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833) was an English politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming an independent Member ...
Thomas Clarkson

Thomas Clarkson (1760 - 1846) was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He helped found The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (also known as the Society for the Abolition of t...