Early Day Motion·EDM 1010
NATIONAL MEMORIAL SLAVERY DAY
22 April 200429 Signatures
Motion Text
at end add 'and recognises the part played by William Wilberforce, the honourable Member for Hull and later for Yorkshire in both ending the slave trade and the abolition of slavery in the British Empire; and calls upon honourable Members and others to take the opportunity to visit the William Wilberforce Museum in Hull and to honour his work and that of the Clapham Sect in honouring the individual dignity of every person made in the usage and likeness of God.'.