William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833)

Born to a merchant family in England’s east coast port of Kingston-upon-Hull, William Wilberforce (b. 1759–d. 1833) went on to become the most famous of British abolitionists. Educ...

William Wilberforce provided the anti‐slavery movement with a dynamic and charismatic political force that effected change in both houses of parliament. He was born in Hull of a pr...

For most historians, William Wilberforce is not immediately associated with the history of capital punishment, at least not beyond his occasional efforts to solicit mercy for indiv...

Resumen. Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras (Celaya, Guanajuato, 1759-1833) es un personaje reconocido por su labor en el ámbito artístico durante los siglos XVIII y XIX, destacándose c...

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This work presents solutions to the strongly coupled nonlinear Wilberforce pendulum model. We begin by presenting three specific cases of the equations of motion of the nonlinear W...

James Currie was born and educated in Scotland but spent most of his professional life in Liverpool, where, as physician to the Liverpool Infirmary, he campaigned against the unsan...

This Chapter deals with Anglophilia as an animating principle in a lot American anti-slavery thought and practice. It begins with an account of how early anti-slavery activists app...