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Dramatisations and letters. These dramatised scenes and letters consider the issue at the heart of the abolition debate: whether slavery was morally justified. In the first scene three fictional women discuss the rights and wrongs of buying slave-grown sugar. Equiano's letters, extracts of which appear here, formed part of his, and the Sons of ...
17 de feb. de 2011 · The Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807, which prohibited the trading of Africans into slavery in the West Indies, ... William Pitt addressing the House of Commons, 1793 ...
21 de oct. de 2015 · William D. Adams; Slavery Did Not Die ... William Pitt Fessenden, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, and many ... and acceptance of the end of slavery—but no advancement in the civil and ...
22 de sept. de 2017 · The need to compromise on slavery for the sake of a union, even at the expense of violating human rights, was clearly understood by all sides. Consider the following remarks by one of the Convention’s most strident opponents of slavery—the eminent legal philosopher James Wilson—as reported in James Madison’s Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1797 .
16 de sept. de 2015 · William Pitt (the younger) was born on 28 May 1759 at Hayes Place, Kent, the second son of William Pitt (the elder), later 1st Earl of Chatham and himself Prime Minister. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge at the age of 14, and later proceeded to Lincoln’s Inn to study law. Unable to afford the expense of standing for Parliament ...
When William Pitt Palmer was born on 18 September 1832, in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, United States, his father, Hiram Pitt Palmer, was 30 and his mother, Eunice Bill Abell, was 30. He lived in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States for about 10 years.
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, PC, PC (Ire), FRS (25 October 1759 – 12 January 1834) was a British Pittite Tory politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1807, but was a supporter of the Whigs for the duration of the Napoleonic Wars. As prime minister, his most significant achievement was the ...
