Wilberforce loses a motion to abolish the slave trade by 74 votes to 70 (there were 558 MPS in the House of Commons); a dozen of Wilberforce’s supported had gone to the opera.
Wilberforce loses a motion to abolish the slave trade by 74 votes to 70 (there were 558 MPS in the House of Commons); a dozen of Wilberforce’s supported had gone to the opera.