Wilberforce denounces the slave trade in Parliament

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• Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference pp. 306-309 · open book

  When William Wilberforce denounced the slave trade before Parliament in 1789, not long after the American revolution and the scandal over the British East India Company had stirred emotions, he raised the question of whether people of Great Britain should care about the oppression of people very different from themselves living in islands few of them had ever seen.

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