William Wilberforce

🔊/ˌwɪljəm ˈwɪlbəfɔːs/

🔊/ˌwɪljəm ˈwɪlbərfɔːrs/

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(1759-1833) an English politician, best known for his successful campaigns to stop the slave trade and to make slavery illegal in the British Empire