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1789

William Wilberforce12 May 1789

Government / Whig Party Government

When the Privy Council report was published on 25 April 1789, it was finally time for Wilberforce to make his delayed entry into the Parliamentary campaign, after months of planning Wilberforce makes his first major speech on the subject of abolition

Names involved

William Wilberforce

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