DYK abolitionist #WilliamWilberforce was a prude? He got #KingGeorgeIII to suppress erotic/obscene speech. His Societies for the Suppression of Vice affected the poor more than the rich, who stashed their #erotica in private libraries. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #porn
#HistoryMatters #AmazingGraceMovie youtu.be/Q6Cv5P9H9qU #WilliamWilberforce was persuaded by friends #WilliamPitt, #ThomasClarkson, #HannahMore, and #OlaudahEquiano to take on the unpopular and dangerous issue of the abolition of the British 🇬🇧 slave trade in 1807. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
A portrait of William Wilberforce, with the words "Legacy Library" above it.
On this day, in 1759, the British politician and Abolitionist William Wilberforce was born. #WilliamWilberforce #💙📚 #Booksky
Geoffrey Plantagenet (1113), #WilliamWilberforce (1759), Max Beerbohm (1872), Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Fernand Braudel (1902), Howard Zinn (1922), Yasser Arafat (1933), Marsha P. Johnson (1945), Mike Huckabee (1955), Ava DuVernay (1972) & Rupert Grint (1988) were born #OnThisDay...
“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”
⛓️ #WilliamWilberforce, British politician, leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade, was #BOTD 24 August 1759.
Back = Morning Prayer July 30, 2025 Wednesday after the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost • WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, Social Reformer, 1833 The life of William Wilberforce refutes the popular notion that a politician cannot be a saintly Christian, dedicated to the service of humanity. Wilberforce was born into an affluent family in Hull, Yorkshire, on August 24th, 1759, and was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1780, he was elected to the House of Commons, and he served in it until 1825. He died in London, July 29th, 1833, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
His conversion to an evangelical Christian life occurred in 1784, several years after he entered Parliament. Fortunately, he was induced by his friends not to abandon his political activities after this inward change in his life, but thereafter he steadfastly refused to accept high office or a peerage. He gave himself unstintingly to the promotion of overseas missions, popular education, and the reformation of public manners and morals. He also supported parliamentary reform and Catholic emancipation. Above all, his fame rests upon his persistent, uncompromising, and single-minded crusade for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade. That sordid traffic was abolished in 1807. He died just one month before Parliament put an end to slavery in the British dominions. One of the
the British dominions. One of the last letters written by John Wesley was addressed to Wilberforce. In it Wesley gave him his blessing for his noble enterprise. Wilberforce's eloquence as a speaker, his charm in personal address, and his profound religious spirit, made him a formidable power for good; and his countrymen came to recognize in him a man of heroic greatness. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:2
Aw yeah, it’s the feast day of #WilliamWilberforce, #politician, #evangelical #Christian, antislavery activist & social reformer (1759-1833). Brother Bill said “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know."
“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”
⛓️⚖️ #WilliamWilberforce, English politician and abolitionist, #DOTD 29 July 1833. #Politics
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
⛓️ #OTD in #History 12 May 1789, #WilliamWilberforce made his first major abolition speech in the UK House of Commons, arguing that the slave trade was an immoral violation of natural justice.
#MarsHillBlog Post Pensiero del giorno. Vulnerabilità #LaBibbia #Cristianesimo #Salmi #Romani #VangelodiSanLuca #WilliamWilberforce #MadreTeresa #CSLewis #MartinLutherKing #SanPaolo #GesùCristo paulburgin.blogspot.com/2025/03/thou...
#MarsHillBlog Post Thought for the Day. Vulnerability #TheBible #Christianity #Psalms #Romans #StLukesGospel #WilliamWilberforce #MotherTeresa #CSLewis #MartinLutherKing #StPaul #JesusChrist paulburgin.blogspot.com/2025/03/thou...
William Wilberforce
#WilliamWilberforce was born in Yorkshire on this day in 1759, leading the parliamentary campaign for enactment of the Slave Trade Act was enacted in 1807; the Slavery Abolition Act followed in 1833 abolishing #slavery throughout the British Empire:
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The #RSPCA was founded in 1824 by revolutionaries including #WilliamWilberforce #history #nature
