Evaluate the role of William Wilberforce in his campaign to end the slave trade

He also encouraged and persuaded people to join the anti- slavery campaign, by using many statistics and in 1789 delivered a three and a half hour speech. The speech included things like, horrific facts about the slave trade, but unfortunately the speech didn’t have much of an effect.

Another thing William done, was encouraging many of the rich people to buy things that had pictures of how bad and horrific the slave trade was, that way they would understand why the slave trade should be abolished. And him and the abolitionists used a logo, representing the slave trade.

In one attempt to end the slave trade, he introduced a law saying, any British Captains caught with slaves on their ships, would be fined £100 for each slave found on their ship. This law didn’t work that well, as many captains ended up just throwing many their slaves overboard

In his attempt, to end slavery William Wilberforce also organized a petition, saying how he believed the slave trade was wrong and the petition went quite successfully, receiving over 300,000 signatures. And in 1807, after years of trying to end the slave trade, the slave trade act was abolished.

William Wilberforce’s views on religion stayed the same and his views on how horrific the slave trade was, still stayed the same after the slave trade was abolished.

William Wilberforce should always be remembered as a determined and courageous person, as he spent his whole life trying to end the slave trade. And even after the slave trade was abolished he continued attempting to abolish things he disagreed with.