A British MP. campaigned for two decades, and successfully abolished the Atlantic slave trade.
For his philanthropy, a village in Sierra Leone, and a private university in Ohio, both bear his name.
While striving to make all slaves free, he retired, then died, three days after the act was passed.
11 / 18 / 2025.
Hull is the great and unique city where I was born
Sitting on the Humber estuary...proud and all alone
Known for keeping Charles I and his army out through courage and bravery
Also the birthplace of William Wilberforce who helped abolish slavery
The most bombed city outside of London during the 2nd World War
This made a strong community stronger even more
With a long and colourful history in shipbuilding, fishing and trading
The old image of Hull is still there ...but it's fading
The docks have been redesigned as shopping centre's or parks
It has an amazing aquarium that's got jellyfish, stingrays and sharks
The music and arts scene in Hull holds its own against the rest
The 2 mile bridge that spans the river is rated amongst the best
There's many green spaces to chill or restaurants to drink and dine in
It's now not unusual for Hull City or FC to score or even get a win
Hull has been rewarded with the City of Culture 2017
The redevelopment of this great city is very welcome but totally unforeseen
I am only one person in a world of many
What can I do to stop the violence of the world
I can refuse to be violent I can refuse to fight
If I refuse to be violent, thats one person less
We are all just a speck in an ocean of many
but if everyone refused to be violent
there could be no more soldiers
there could be no more army's
there could be no more wars
I am only one person in this world of many
what can I do to stop stavation and pain
learn to invest learn to build jobs
parents that have wages
can feed their child
I am only one person in this world of many
what can I do to stop anger and hatred
Remember William Wilberforce
one white man that fought against slavery
one man that fought against the pain
Remember the abolishionist movement
People that fought against slavery
the colour of a man's skin
does not dictate the heart of his soul
remember to love that we all might love.
A righteous man and force for good
was England’s William Wilberforce.
For those without a voice he stood,
a righteous man and force for good!
No other man of his time could
have fought so well and stayed the course!
A righteous man and force for good
was England’s William Wilberforce.
I will send you a note
tonight
if I can catch the firefly
in bed
somewhere
in an old worn out basin
down by the river
is left an empty seashell
if I can coil over its rusty fence
and say goodbye
to the coral snake
I will call you
I still carry
the cockroach wing
looking at the Moon
from the garbage heap
where nobody wants to look
should the moon come out
this age old garbage
will begin to change color
growing harmony
in its steps
we too have known Burma,
Vietnam and have been
to Singapore in the classroom; yet
we get the smallest pension
(Wilberforce, 08/12/2011)
A chronicle of amazing grace
To change the human race-
Just William they called him,
Persistence helped him win
This triumph over sin.
William Wilberforce (1759-1833)-of abolishing slave trade saga Filmed 2007
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