1833 SUNDAY TIMES. Passage of Wilberforce's Slavery Abolition Act; Wilberforce Obituary; Extensive Slavery Content.

A wonderful near complete 47 issues [of 52] of the Sunday Times from 1833, This was most significant year in the abolitionist cause, being both the year of Wilberforce's death and the final passage the Slavery Abolition Act. And we can feel the final push in the pages. In addition to the record of the oral debates in Parliament leading up to the final July 1833 vote, we have accounts of ongoing abolitionist meetings, auxiliary anti-slavery activities, accounts of the brutality of slavery, slavery in America, etc., 

Just a few examples include: American Colonisation Society Meetings at Exeter Hall [lengthy, with accounts of William Lloyd Garrison's speeches, etc., ]; Account of the New England Anti-Slavery Society; An Account of a Slave Beaten to Death for Praying; Slavery in South Carolina; Slavery in New Orleans; The Ongoing Flourishing State of the Foreign Slave Trade; Fascinating Accounts of the Parliamentary Debates Regarding Specific Language for the 1833 Abolition Act and the Adoption Issue [July 22, 1833]; etc., 

Includes the obituary for William Wilberforce following his death on July 29, 1833:

That Champion in the great and sacred cause of 'Peace on Earth and good will to Men,' that great moral conqueror, Mr. Wilberforce, is no more. He died on Monday night at the house of his friend, Mr. Smith, in Cadogan-Place, in the 74th year of his age. In pious hope and generous exultation, he closed a career which his charitable labours had rendered in no ordinary degree splendid. One of his last exclamations, uttered but a few hours before his death, holding up his hands with gratitude and admiration, was, 'Oh! that I should have lived to see the day when England has consented to vote 20,000,000£ for the abolition of slavery! etc. 

Plus Riots in Ireland; Accounts of the Most Horrific Murders & Public Executions Including Poisonings & Suicides; Accounts of Ghosts Raised from the Dead in Constantinople; The Street Preacher "Boatswain Smith" Arrested for Causing a Riot; Account of a "Converted Jew" Arrested for Making a Disturbance; Murder by a Police Officer, etc., 

47 [of 52] issues, all folded with some exhibiting breaches at folds and chips at extremities with a few having some foredge losses. All said, very attractive, and a wonderful historic grouping. It was only with some difficulty we did not spend more time perusing the pages than we ought; excellent primary resources documents.