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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) An engraved portrait of William Wilberforce, honoring him as the Chairman of the Anti-Slavery Committee. Mezzotint by I. Rising after a painting by C. F. Hodges showing Wilberforce in his office. London, 1791
a wonderfully sensitive portrait of William Wilberforce (1759-1833), who presented the evidence of the terrible cruelty of the slave trade before Parliament in 1791. 1787, he had come into contact with Thomas Clarkson and a group of anti-slave-trade activists, including Granville Sharp, Hannah More and Charles Middleton. They persuaded Wilberforce to take on the cause of abolition, and he soon became one of the leading English abolitionists. He headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty years until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.
