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7C William Wilberforce: Worksheet

1 Watch the video. Are the statements true (T) or false (F)?
1 Britain started buying and selling people as slaves after William Wilberforce
became a Member of Parliament.
2 The British took people from the Caribbean to Africa in ships.
3 Slave traders sold the people to farmers.
4 The ships had hundreds of large rooms.
5 Rich people wanted to stop slavery.
6 In some places there are still slaves today.

2 Watch the video again. Complete the sentences with the

dates and numbers in the box.
21 40 1759 1787 1807 1883

1 William Wilberforce was born in  .

2 William Wilberforce died in  .
3 He became a Member of Parliament when he was ______ years old.
4 He worked for over years to stop the slave trade.
5 The British government stopped the British slave trade in  .
6 A group called ‘Anti-Slavery International’ started in  .

Vocabulary Extra
3 Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
ban formed society suffered terrible

1 William Wilberforce changed British  .

2 Wilberforce wanted to the slave trade.
3 The situation was  .
4 Millions of people because of slavery.
5 People an organisation called ‘Anti-Slavery International’.

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Unit 7 Culture clip

7C William Wilberforce: Answer key

1
1 false
2 false
3 true
4 false
5 false
6 true

2
1 1759
2 1883
3 21
4 40
5 1807
6 1787

3
1 society
2 ban
3 terrible
4 suffered
5 formed

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7C William Wilberforce: Script

Hi! I’m Toby. Welcome to Hull.
There are a lot of places in Hull named after its
most famous resident. This is William Wilberforce.
He was born in Hull in 1759 and he died in 1883.
He changed British society and influenced the
whole world.
This is the house where William Wilberforce was
born. He was elected the Member of Parliament for
Hull when he was only 21 years old.
At this time, Britain was involved in the slave trade.
The country bought and sold slaves. British ships
travelled from Britain to West Africa to take people
from their villages. They then took the Africans to
the Caribbean. Here, they sold them to rich farmers.
The ships were small but they carried hundreds of
people. The people didn’t have any room to move.
The situation was terrible.
But the trade had made a lot of people rich, and
they didn’t want it to be banned.
William Wilberforce is famous because for over 40
years, he worked with groups of people to stop
the slave trade. The British government made
the slave trade illegal in 1807. But unfortunately,
Willberforce’s work did not stop slavery
everywhere.
Even now millions of people still suffer in slavery
and Anti-Slavery International, the organisation
which was formed in 1787, continues to try to
help them.

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