William Wilberforce was born in 1759 in Hull ... On 12 May 1789 he gave his first key speech on the abolition of the slave trade. It has gone down in history as one of the most significant ...

William Wilberforce used the model during the Abolition Campaign to demonstrate the horrors of the Middle Passage.The model was based on an actual slave ship built in Liverpool in 1780-81 and co ...