"'We must believe,' he warned, 'that a continued course of wickedness, oppression and cruelty, obstinately maintained in spite of the fullest knowledge and the loudest warnings, must infallibly bring down upon us the heaviest judgments of the Almighty.' A month later, on Feb. 23, the House of Commons voted 283 to 16 to abolish the slave trade."
Marking the 200th anniversary of the end of the transatlantic slave trade, Joseph Loconte in the Los Angeles Times praises British politician William Wilberforce.
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