The descendants of William Wilberforce continue to live at Markington Hall, near Harrogate, but they have had to adapt and ...

A federal judge in Northern California on Tuesday extended her April injunction ordering the Trump administration to restore ...

For much more about the Seewalds’ new world as a family of four, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday Henry — who is named after William Wilberforce, a politician and ...

Meet the heart of William Wilberforce’s abolitionist movement. William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect founded Sierra Leone, then tolerated a form of slavery there, a new book reveals.

Through politicians like William Wilberforce, MP for Kingston upon Hull, there was pressure within parliament to abolish slavery. There were also campaigns, boycotts, and protests by abolitionist ...

The student's name was Thomas Clarkson. He, along with another Englishman, William Wilberforce, would lead this fight to end the trade. Opposition to slavery existed from the outset among enlaved ...

In 1797, William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd), the great crusader for the British abolition of slavery, is taking a vacation for his health even while he is sicker at heart for his frustrated cause.

Hull has been twinned with the capital of Freetown since 1979. The links were set up to commemorate Hull MP William ...

Gymnast Diamond Cook was first introduced last fall in a Tell Me Good News segment when Wilberforce University made history as one of the first ever historically Black university gymnastic teams.

No other couple in human history has shown such a spirit filled with revolutionary ambition for change. That too in a ...