“So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the Slave Trade’s wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for Abolition. Let the consequences be what they would, I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition. Until, as they would, my opposition in Parliament called me a cruel monicker in the news-broadsheet, whereupon I immediately backed-off so as to not ‘overreach’ or seem radical.”
- William Wilberforce
