William Wilberforce's Fight Against The Slave Trade

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William Wilberforce was born on the 24 August 1759. He was a powerful politician and was a very important parliamentary leader that was fighting against the slave trade.He wasn't only very passionate against the slave trade, but he was also fighting for good health care and to stop worst forms of child labor.He wasn't like this all the way through his life, only in 1785, he became a Christian, which hugely changed him lifestyle and way of thinking. He became less self-centred and more aware of other people’s problems. Only then he truly started to help others and see the suffering in his world.Three years later, his path crossed with Thomas Clarkson and a group of anti-slave-trade activists.They persuaded him to take on the cause of abolition,

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