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Reference code
Slavery/Box 3/13
Unique identifier
GB 275 Slavery/Box 3/13
Title
'Substance of the speeches of William Wilberforce on the clause in the East-India bill'
Date(s)
- 1813 (Creation)
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Item
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109p
Context area
Name of creator
(1759-1833)
Biographical history
Entered St John's 1776; BA 1781; MA 1788; MP for Hull 1780-4; for Yorkshire 1784-1812; for Bamber 1812-25; Founded the Proclamation Society, for the suppression of vice, in 1787; Parliamentary leader for the cause for the abolition of slavery from 1787; carried the bill through the House of Commons 1807; retired from political life 1825, due to ill-health; buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Scope and content
Bill for promoting the religious instruction and moral improvement of the natives in the British Dominions in India. Speeches given on the 22nd June and the 1st and 12th of July, 1813. Printed in London by John Hatchard.