August 24

Born on this day Friday, August 24, 1759. :   William Wilberforce, the man largely responsible for the abolition of the slave trade, is born. William Wilberforce was born on 24 August 1759 in Hull, Britain. He studied at Cambridge University where he befriended England’s future prime minister, William Pitt the Younger. In 1780, Wilberforce became member of […]