Wilberforce Colony was a colony established in the year 1829 by free African American citizens, north of present-day London, Ontario, Canada. It was an...
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William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, a philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade...
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trade Wilberforce, New South Wales Wilberforce Cemetery Wilberforce Park Wilberforce, Ontario Wilberforce Colony, Ontario; an 18th-century colony of American...
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settlement, the Wilberforce Colony (named in honor of William Wilberforce), located north of present-day London, Ontario. The Colony had been founded...
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after escaping from slavery. A group with more resources founded the Wilberforce Colony as a place of their own. African Americans who remained in Cincinnati...
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sponsored founding of the Wilberforce Colony, an initially successful settlement of African American immigrants to Canada. The colony was one of the first...
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1970, with only a single small laneway in Strathcona remaining. The Wilberforce Colony in Ontario was also a historically Black settlement. It evolved demographically...
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Baptist minister and abolitionist who worked in Albany, New York, Wilberforce Colony in Canada, and traveled to the United Kingdom to raise support to...
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William Wilberforce Bird (2 July 1758 – 19 April 1836), merchant, civil servant and author, was the Member of Parliament for Coventry from 1796 to 1802...
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The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was captured by the English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire...
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an American free black settlement in Ontario, Canada, known as the Wilberforce Colony. It had been started by free blacks from Cincinnati, Ohio, who emigrated...
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The Red River Colony (or Selkirk Settlement), also known as Assiniboia, was a colonization project set up in 1811 by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk...
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[citation needed] Lundy visited Haiti twice (in 1825 and 1829); the Wilberforce Colony of freedmen and refugee slaves in Canada in 1830-1831 (perhaps in...
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Wilberforce Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at Clergy Road, Wilberforce, City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia. It was laid out by surveyor...
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Neoclassical architecture Huron Road, Huron Tract. The Wilberforce Settlement 1830 (Wilberforce Colony) In 1841, the Huron Tract was 1,200,000 acres (4,900 km2)...
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Haitian emigration Niger expedition of 1841 Nova Scotian Settlers Wilberforce Colony James 2010, p. 31. Encyclopedia.com 2019. Wellman 2014, p. 100. Wellman...
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Cottage is a heritage-listed former cottage and now museum at Rose Street, Wilberforce, City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1810...
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Zion Methodist Church, Wilberforce Street is a historic Settler church established by the Nova Scotian Settlers in 1792 and the present building was constructed...
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became Baptist preachers and proponents of black emigration to the Wilberforce Colony in Ontario. Nathaniel was a minister at Albany, NY, and founder of...
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Freeman; Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West: Electronic Edition". Retrieved 7 July 2020....
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fairness for all human beings. Their most famous member was William Wilberforce, widely commemorated in monuments and credited with hastening the end...
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from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2022. Asare, Wilberforce (10 October 2022). "Akufo-Addo: Accra named UNESCO World Book Capital...
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Wilberforce Park is a heritage-listed public parkland at 47 George Road, Wilberforce, City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia. It was first established...
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become what Lord Minto called "the Atlas of our reeling globe". William Wilberforce said, "For personal purity, disinterestedness and love of this country...
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December 2023) was a distinguished Kenyan journalist and diplomat. Born in the Colony of Kenya, Njoroge was raised in a family with a rich tradition of public...
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mixed-race colonists, a move that drew criticism from abolitionists William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. The troops who came to Saint-Domingue from Britain...
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after the Blairs moved into Downing Street. He was the successor to Wilberforce. Humphrey was frequently referred to in jest by the press as an actual...
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Company was the corporate body involved in founding the second British colony in Africa on 11 March 1792 through the resettlement of Black Loyalists who...
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worldwide, having previously been the world's largest slave dealers. William Wilberforce had written in his diary in 1787 that his great purpose in life was to...
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