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’No! No!’ cried the little boy. Please no! I want to stay with my mother!’
’Be quiet!’ shouted the man who had roughly pulled his mother from him.
She was taken to a raised platform and offered for sale immediately. The heart-broken mother was to be separated from her little boy for the rest of her life…
This was the fate of thousands of women and children before slavery was abolished. One man stood out from the many who fought to bring freedom and relief from the terrors of the slave trade, though it took him forty-five years to see it outlawed. His name was William Wilberforce.
Wilberforce was a British member of parliament who risked being thought a fool for standing by his principles. He was an example of a politician standing for what is right, rather than what is convenient.
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