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Description: | A large seat made of stone with a back, legs and scrolled arms. On the back, in the centre, is a large oval plaque carved in the stone, with the inscription within it. It stands on three stone blocks as legs. It is now set on paving slabs behind the railings of the Holwood House estate which is privately owned, although at one time I believe it was publicly accessible from the path which runs next to it. The oak tree in question is fenced off on the opposite side of the path but has fallen down. The seat may have been moved back to protect it from vandalism. Additional Information: William Wilberforce 1759-1833, and his part in the abolition of the slave trade especially this meeting in 1787 with William Pitt the Younger the then Prime Minister. From 1787 William Wilberforce was prominent in the movement to abolish both slavery and the slave trade that fed it. He became a close friend of Pitt at Cambridge and in 1780 they both entered parliament. His belief in abolition arose from his evangelical Christianity, to which he converted in 1784-85. In 1787 he helped found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, or the Anti-Slavery Society as it was known. In 1807 a bill to abolish slavery in the British West Indies became law. Later, from 1821, he urged the emancipation of all slaves, as those who were in slavery before the 1807 act were not freed under it. In 1823 he helped to found, and became vice president of, the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, again known as the Anti-Slavery Society. He left the Commons in 1825 and the slavery abolition act he had worked for was passed just after his death in 1833.(2) William Pitt the Younger was born in 1759 in Hayes in Kent. He was Prime Minister 1783-1801 and 1804-06.(3) | Subjects: | Seat / Bench | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=6992... | Go to resource |
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