YouTube - SLAVERY: The Abolitionists' Cause
One of the biggest political campaigns of the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century in Britain was the campaign for the abolition of slavery, an institution which was very profitable and defended by a large part of the elite.
The campaign had groups in every town, its own newspapers, demonstrations, petitions, badges. This youtube video goes back to one particular speech in parliament by an abolitionist.
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