William Wilberforce

question 24

Multiple Choice

William Wilberforce

• A) wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.
• B) pushed a bill through Parliament that ended the slave trade.
• C) was the chief proponent of conservatism in the eighteenth century.
• D) focused his efforts on gaining complete equality for women.
• E) was the leader of the British forces that surrendered at Yorktown.

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