The new account on X entitled ProudofUS has been posting a great many very enlightening stories of historical figures and movements. Right now, Britain is in the midst of a government-approved Islamic invasion, so he thought he should remind Britons of their many beneficial people who spread goodwill and learning to the world. Here are a couple of good ones. Read the text, watch the videos too.
He was DEFEATED ELEVEN TIMES. Attacked. Threatened with DEATH. Nearly blind. Addicted to opium just to function. They told him to stop. He spent forty-six years refusing. His name was William Wilberforce.
Born in Hull, 1759. He could have lived a comfortable life. Wealthy family. Safe seat in Parliament. Instead he chose to destroy the most powerful economic system in the British Empire. The slave trade. He didn’t fight alone.
Thomas Clarkson rode 35,000 miles gathering evidence. Olaudah Equiano, man who had been enslaved himself, gave testimony that no politician could ignore. Wilberforce took their evidence to Parliament.
They voted no. He came back. They voted no. He came back. Lost by eight votes. MPs deliberately stayed away so they wouldn’t have to choose a side. He came back. Again. And again. And again. By now his eyesight was nearly gone. His body was breaking. He’d been on opium since he was 29.
Twenty years after he started, they voted again. 283 to 16. The slave trade was abolished.
But he wasn’t finished. Slavery itself was still legal. He fought for another twenty-six years.
In July 1833, lying in bed, barely able to move, he received word. Parliament had voted. Slavery was abolished across the entire British Empire. Three days later, William Wilberforce died. He held on just long enough. They buried him in Westminster Abbey. Help keep our stories alive. http://proudofus.co.uk/support
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He was DEFEATED ELEVEN TIMES.
Attacked. Threatened with DEATH. Nearly blind.
Addicted to opium just to function. They told him to stop. He spent forty-six years refusing.
His name was William Wilberforce. Born in Hull, 1759.
The article mentions that slavery, despite being basically abolished worldwide in the 19th Century, still exists in the modern world. Yes, Muslims, the original slave-holders and sellers, are still capturing and enslaving innocents in the Middle East and Africa. If the barbaric practice of slavery is to be finally abolished, Islam must be defeated wherever it is found.
And one more:
One man taught children to read on their only day off. A bishop called his schools “agents of the devil.”
250,000 children came anyway.
His name was Robert Raikes. Gloucester, 1780. Working-class children worked six days a week. Some of them were six years old.
Sunday was the only day they had. So Raikes opened a school in a house on Sooty Alley.
Directly opposite the city prison. He could see both futures from his window.
In seven years, 250,000 children learned to read.
Factory owners said educated workers would demand better wages. Politicians said readers would learn about rights. A bishop called the schools “agents of the devil.”
The children came anyway. Their parents sent them anyway.
By 1831, 1.25 million children were in Sunday Schools. A quarter of all children in Britain.
Working-class families took control of the schools themselves. It wasn’t charity anymore. It was theirs.
The government took a hundred years to catch up. A book. A room. A Sunday.
That was all it took to change Britain forever.
One man taught children to read on their only day off.
A bishop called his schools "agents of the devil." 👿
250,000 children came anyway.
His name was Robert Raikes. Gloucester, 1780.
Working-class children worked six days a week. Some of them were six years old. Sunday was… pic.twitter.com/lwDSr5RSdn
Here’s some additional information, from a commenter on the above post.
His old house is now a CAMRA pub in Gloucester. A Grade II listed restored building in the heart of the city. Gloucester is full of history. pic.twitter.com/7QRJ4WNRaC
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