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Great Britain
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Anne
Queen of Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714 -
Frederick, Prince of Wales
Eldest son and heir apparent of King George II. -
George III
King of Great Britain and Ireland (1760-1820) -
Lowther, William, 1st Earl of Lonsdale
British politician in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His cousin, James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1736-1803) was a landowner, politician, and absentee slave-owner of the Lowther estate in Barbados from 1756 to 1802. History of Parliament describes William Lowther as inheriting 'vast wealth as well as a viscountcy from Sir James Lowther' upon the latter's death in 1802. -
Pitt the Younger, William
British statesman in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Pitt was Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783-1801) and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1801; 1804-1806). In 1793, Pitt oversaw Britain's entry into the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), leading a campaign to conquer the French colony of Saint-Domingue and restore slavery on the island. Britain's five year intervention in Haiti was a military and fiscal disaster, with over 40,000 British soldiers dying in the conflict. Although he expressed support for the abolition of the slave-trade before the House of Commons in 1792, Pitt failed to secure progress on the issue throughout his time in office. The British slave-trade was abolished in 1807 after Pitt's death, while the institution of British slavery itself was not abolished until 1833. -
Washington, George
American slave-owner, Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. -
Wedgwood, Josiah
English potter and founder of the Wedgwood company in the eighteenth century. In 1787, Wedgwood produced an anti-slavery medallion depicting a kneeling enslaved Black man alongside the words "Am I not a man and a brother?", and the medallion has since become one of the most famous - and often critiqued - symbols of the British abolitionist movement. -
Wesley, Charles
English Methodist and hymn writer. Wesley briefly lived in British North America between 1735 and 1736. -
Wolfe, James
British Army officer in the eighteenth century who fought in Canada.