Kevin BELMONTE - 'William Wilberforce: A Hero for Humanity

The Great First Object- Chapter 4

• Under a year after his religious transformation, on Oct 28 1787: “God Almighty as placed before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners [that is morals].” 

• 1780: expressed his first desire to relieve slave sufferings.

• James Ramsey: Wilberforce had a conversation with Ramsey on the treatment of black slaves shortly before Ramsey wrote “An Essay on the Treatment.. of Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies” = Ramsey was one of the first writers to describe the horrors of the Slave Trade. ——— page 97