William Wilberforce

Standard Name: Wilberforce, William

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Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB , Epistle to William Wilberforce , Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade, was entered with the Stationers' Company by Joseph Johnson . It was her first new...
Family and Intimate relationships Isabella Bird
IB 's great-grandfather Sir George Merttins was Lord Mayor of London. William Wilberforce , a leader in the fight against slavery, was her father's second cousin. Two of her male relatives became Bishops in the...
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Brontë
Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Brontë
Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large, respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Charles
The novel tells the story of its female narrator's life during the evangelical revival in the Napoleonic era, [and] proposes religion as the antidote for revolution.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Bride Danescombe opens her narrative of her life with...
Education George Eliot
Her devotion to John Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More 's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce . By late 1838, however...
Literary responses Olaudah Equiano
This book was an immediate success in Britain, and in the USA it significantly influenced the emancipation movement.
Equiano, Olaudah. “Introduction, etc”. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, edited by Angelo Costanzo, Peterborough, ON, pp. 7-37.
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An early reviewer, Mary Wollstonecraft in the Analytical Review, noted some inconsistency between the...
Textual Features Martha Hale
She writes on public themes with equal panache, attacking colonial appropriations and in another poem calling Warren Hastings an oppressed hero. She addresses public men and women, and here too is attentive to women's issues...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Harvey
The contents include descriptive and melancholy sonnets, satire, autobiography, and politics (including a poem on the horrors of slavery, addressed to William Wilberforce , and another about the sorrow of a woman whose lover has...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Harvey
JH 's broadside sets out to oppose new legislation which would protect farmers by blocking the import of cheap grain. It looks back to a golden time when the poor as well as the rich...
Textual Features Ann Hatton
Her dedication to William Wilberforce , dated 13 July 1816, is accompanied by a title-page remark about the Christian virtues of the sooty African.
Feminist Companion Archive.
The Africans who appear in the story, kidnapped into slavery...
Textual Features Elizabeth Heyrick
EH opens by reminding her readers that although the slave trade had been abolished in Britain and its possessions seventeen years before this, and although trading in slaves was now a felony for British subjects...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...
Textual Production Samuel Johnson
Knight had married a white fellow-servant and needed to be free from his master (a man of some eminence who bitterly opposed letting him go) so that he could earn money. This interesting case, lasting...
Family and Intimate relationships Fanny Kingsley
Grenfell was also an established politician. From 14 December 1802 (before Fanny's birth) to 29 February 1820 he served as the MP for Great Marlow, and from 21 April 1820 to 2 June 1826 he...

Timeline

22 May 1787: The Society for the Abolition of the Slave...

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22 May 1787

The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was founded in London, by Granville Sharp , Thomas Clarkson , and ten more, of whom nine were Quakers .

19 April 1791: Wilberforce's motion to abolish the slave-trade...

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19 April 1791

Wilberforce 's motion to abolish the slave-trade (put on 18 April) was defeated in the House of Commons .

Autumn 1791: Anti-slavery campaigners William Wilberforce...

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Autumn 1791

Anti-slavery campaigners William Wilberforce and Henry Thornton launched the Sierra Leone Company , which sought to resettle former slaves on the west coast of Africa, and to promote legitimate trade with the region.

1792: The Evangelical Henry Thornton bought a house...

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1792

The EvangelicalHenry Thornton bought a house on Battersea Rise, Clapham, South London: from this came the name of the Clapham Sect .

March 1792: The Danish parliament voted to end the slave...

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March 1792

The Danish parliament voted to end the slave trade to their West Indian colonies.

By early March 1792: According to Maria Edgeworth, 25,000 families...

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By early March 1792

According to Maria Edgeworth , 25,000 families in England had joined in the boycott against West Indian, that is slave-grown, sugar.

mid 1792-1815: These were the active years of the informal...

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mid 1792-1815

These were the active years of the informal evangelical Anglican group later called the Clapham Sect (then known as the Saints ).

1793: William Wilberforce led an unsuccessful attempt...

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1793

William Wilberforce led an unsuccessful attempt to get the East India Company 's statutes charter amended, to commit it to furthering the work of missionaries.

September 1793: Effigies of anti-slavery leader William Wilberforce...

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September 1793

Effigies of anti-slavery leader William Wilberforce and radical Thomas Paine were burned together at Kingston, Jamaica: Anna Maria Falconbridge witnessed this on her roundabout voyage from Africa to England.

March 1796: An Abolition Bill, calling for the gradual...

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March 1796

An Abolition Bill, calling for the gradual abolition of the slave trade, put before the House of Commons by William Wilberforce , reached a third reading. It was narrowly defeated when some of its supporters...

By May 1797: William Wilberforce published A Practical...

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By May 1797

William Wilberforce published A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country contrasted with real Christianity.

By November 1802: The Society for the Suppression of Vice was...

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By November 1802

The Society for the Suppression of Vice was founded in London and grew into the gap left by the Proclamation Society ; ironically, it was often called the Vice Society.

By 19 October 1814: The Episcopal Church in India was founded,...

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By 19 October 1814

The Episcopal Church in India was founded, with Thomas Fanshaw Middleton installed as the subcontinent's first Anglican bishop.

: Evangelical William Wilberforce stayed in...

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Winter1814-15

Evangelical William Wilberforce stayed in Brighton during the winter season in order to have access to the Prince Regent and attempt a conversion within the monarchy.

June 1816: Lady Isabella King opened at Bailbrook House...

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June 1816

Lady Isabella King opened at Bailbrook House near Bath a communal home for single gentlewomen (or Protestant nunnery): a project going back to Mary Astell , which King picked up from Sarah Scott 's Millenium Hall.

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