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Birth Of William Wilberforce
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American War of independance
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Wilberforce at St Johns college cambridge meets pit
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Wilberforce elected mp for hull
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case of the slave ship zong over 100 negroes thrown overboard
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wilberforce elected mp for yorkshire
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wilberforce visits france with miler (formerly at hull grammar school) spiritual crisis
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committee for abolition of slave trade formed invite wilberforce to press for abolition in parliament first freed slave shipped to sierra leone
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wilberforve speaks condemning the trade
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french revolution storming of the bastille
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major slave revoly in san domingo wilberforce accused of starting revolution at home and abroad.
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new resolution to gradually abolish the trade this is defeated in the lords
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demoralised abolition committee does not m
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wilberforce writes a a practical view best selling religoius work
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william pitt dies
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bill to abolish the trade is passed
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peterloo rising wilberforce supports repressive measures against radicals
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wilberforce retires as mp leadership of parliamentary campaign passes to buxton
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slavery abolished in british possesssions apprenticeship system introduced slaves become wage earners
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apprenticeship abolished as unworkable
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uncle toms cabins published antislavery feeling grows agaisnt american slavery
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american civil war slavery abolised constitutionally in 1865