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North-east London businessman who helped end slavery in British Empire | East London and West Essex Guardian Series


By
Stephen Ayers
William Dillwyn painted in 1815 at the age of 72 by Charles Robert Leslie. Credit: Library of the Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain.
William Dillwyn, a co-ordinator of the British abolitionist and anti-slavery campaign, was born in Pennsylvania in 1743 and lived in Walthamstow (Blackhorse Lane) from 1777 until his death in 1824.
A devout Quaker, William was taught at school by Anthony Benezet, who started the campaign in North America to abolish the Atlantic slave trade. He grew up to become Benezet’s close friend and assistant, travelling to Carolina plantations, to observe and record slavery and the slave trade in all its horror and lobbying the legislature for an end to the brutality. ....

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