The descendants of William Wilberforce continue to live at Markington Hall, near Harrogate, but they have had to adapt and ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. William Wilberforce was born in 1759 in Hull, East Yorkshire. He attended Cambridge University, where he became ...

In 1797, William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd), the great crusader for the British abolition of slavery, is taking a vacation for his health even while he is sicker at heart for his frustrated cause.

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 ...