How did william wilberforce and olaudah equiano contribute to the abolition of slavery

Wilberforce was an English politician. He led a movement on how to stop slave trade. He was among who supported the campaign to stop slavery and because of health which was failing he resigned from the parliament and that caused the hearing that the abolish from slavery act was passed in the parliament he died.

Olaudah Equiano was enslaved and that is the most important part why he wanted to abolish slavery. When he was a child he was kidnapped and sold to slavery. He was gathering stones and weeding grass as his work in Virginia during his slave period.

He had his own life story of slavery and that is when he petitioned the abolishment of slavery in parliament where he wrote a book bout his slavery and later a letter to  Queen about the abolishment of slavery.

Until a decade later is when slavery ended in Britain but he died before the slavery was over.

They worked with the abolition movement in great britian to help change opinions and laws on slavery.

first industrial revolution - the first wave of the industrial revolution lasted from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s. it industrialized the manufacture of textiles and began the move of production from homes to factories. steam power and the cotton gin played an important role in this period.