A | B |
England | His homeland |
merchant | the occupation of William's grandfather |
three | Wilberforce had ____ sisters. |
nine | his age when his father died |
Hannah and William Wilberforce | William's aunt and uncle |
John Newton | an evangelist who influenced Wilberforce |
slave-ship captain | John Newton's former occupation |
Amazing Grace | a movie about the life of Wilberforce |
Church of England | his mother's religion |
Cambridge | location of St. John's College |
partying and playing cards | what Wilberforce enjoyed about college |
William Pitt | his friend who became Prime Minister |
Hull | Wilberforce's hometown |
twenty-one | his age when first elected to Parliament |
Isaac Milner | Wilberforce's traveling companion in Europe |
Barbara Spooner | Wilberforce's wife |
six | Wilberforce and his wife had ____ children. |
forty-four | the number of years he served in Parliament |
Slave Trade Act | abolished the slave trade in England |
horrible | a word to describe the treatment of slaves |
13th Amendment | abolished slavery in the United States |
iron quoits | were used as barter in the slave trade |
Africa | the home country of many slaves |
Robert and Samuel | two of Wilberforce's sons |
thirty-seven | his age when he married |
twenty | his wife's age when they married |
seventeen | the age difference between Wilberforce and his wife |
Bible | the book responsible for his conversion |