A Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, at a Time to be limited.

£2,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A very good copy of one of the many bills Wilberforce introduced over the course of a decade to weaken Britain’s commitment to slavery. Wilberforce’s 1804 bill, like the one three years later which would become law, only sought to abolish the slave trade, ie the traffick of people, but not slavery itself. The bill comm

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