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Cobbett, William

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has biography | a une biographie: English radical pamphleteer, journalist, and politician. Cobbett held strongly racist views and was an important working-class opponent of the British abolition movement in the early nineteenth-century.
was born | est né: 9 March 1763
died in | est mort par: 18 June 1835
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; History of Parliament Online; Ryan Hanley, 'Slavery and the Birth of Working Class Racism in the United Kingdom, 1814-1833', The Alexander Prize Essay, Transactions of the RHS, 26 (2016) 103–123

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Equestrian statue of William Cobbett