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19 de ago. de 2023 · How William Gladstone defended his father’s role in slavery. The great Victorian statesman’s glittering career was financed by huge profits made in the 1820s and 30s on Guyanese estates....
William Gladstone himself was never a slave trader. In the early 19th century his father, John Gladstone, along with many British merchants in the early nineteenth century, owned land in the West Indies and South America that used slave-labour.
15 de may. de 2009 · William Gladstone's views on slavery and the slave trade have received little attention from historians, although he spent much of his early years in parliament dealing with issues related to that subject.
Gladstone's early attitude towards slavery was highly shaped by his father, Sir John Gladstone, one of the largest slave owners in the British Empire. Gladstone wanted gradual rather than immediate emancipation, and proposed that slaves should serve a period of apprenticeship after being freed. [19]
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19 de ago. de 2023 · The education and career of William Gladstone, the 19th-century politician known for his liberal and reforming governments, were funded by enslaved Africans working on his father’s sugar...
William Gladstone, whose father, John, was one of the largest slave owners in the West Indies. Gladstone's family connection with slavery caused him embarrass-ment in later life and he rarely referred to it in his autobiographical remi-niscences. Nevertheless he recalled that he had devoted most of his parliamentary
25 de ago. de 2023 · The Gladstone family apologised for its slaveholding past in Guyana and pledged to fund research into slavery and other projects at a ceremony on Friday.
