Philanthropic Consolations, after the loss of the Slave-Bill. Wilberforce and Samuel Horsley, Bishop of Rochester, cavort with two black women in a well-furnished room. Wilberforce and a woman, wearing a print dress with her breasts exposed, sit on a couch smoking cheroots. Horsley, in his bishop's robes, embraces a woman sitting on his knee holding a wine glass. A black servant boy brings in a tray of filled glasses. William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was an English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to stop the slave trade. He supported the campaign for the complete abolition of slavery. That campaign led to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire, Wilberforce died, at the age of 73, just three days after hearing that the passage of the Act through Parliament was assured. James Gillray, April 4, 1796. | |
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