Published in 1807, just before Parliament abolished the British slave trade, this is William Wilberforce’s full argument addressed to the freeholders of Yorkshire who had elected him. He sets out the cruelty of the trade, answers the planters’ claims that the islands needed fresh imports, and appends extracts from older travellers on Africa and the Guinea coast.
The great abolitionist’s own summing-up of twenty years of campaigning, a key document of British history. Download the free EPUB.