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Empire: World History

66. Wilberforce and the Fight for Freedom

Empire: World History

Goalhanger

History

4.55.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The abolition movement is growing in Britain, at its helm are two men. William Wilberforce leads the campaign in parliament and Thomas Clarkson powers it from the grassroots. Their combined might will win a great victory in the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. Listen as William Dalrymple and Anita Anand are joined by Michael Taylor to tell this story. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/empirepod. Twitter: @Empirepoduk Goalhangerpodcasts.com Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Jack Davenport + Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me, welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnan and me William Durable.

0:35.7

How are you? You're right.

0:37.1

I'm all right. Thank you Anita. I'm slightly alarmed though by the proliferation of

0:41.8

Anita Annans all over the media in the last week.

0:45.0

May I just say as somebody who's had to live with all of the Dalry impasse popping out of history

0:49.8

like some kind of popcorn machine. Good, I'm glad. But the the

0:56.6

the dribples no longer have their hands on it on armies, bombs and

1:00.0

fighter jets I'm like the Anita Adams.

1:02.0

I mean for those of you don't know what the hell we're talking about.

1:07.0

Which must be about 10 people in the world given the BBC play.

1:11.0

We're not just the BBC, it's gone all over America and Canada.

1:14.0

It's a story that's gone, I mean, I'm viral, William Durham Court.

1:18.0

I would never doubt it,

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and you call me things that are similar, but I am actually in the social media sense of the

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word I'm viral.

1:28.7

This is because the Canada, there is a country called Canada, it's going to start from the very beginning of the story

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once by a time.

1:36.7

But they have a defence minister called Anita Arman and for a very long time I have been harangued on Twitter.

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