Editing William Wilberforce (section)

==Memorials==
[[File:Wilberforce 1.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|right|The [[Wilberforce Monument]] in the grounds of [[Hull College]], [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]], erected in 1834|alt=see caption]] 

Wilberforce's life and work have been commemorated in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. In Westminster Abbey, a seated statue of Wilberforce by [[Samuel Joseph (sculptor)|Samuel Joseph]] was erected in 1840, bearing an epitaph praising his Christian character and his long labour to abolish the slave trade and slavery.<ref>{{cite web| title = William Wilberforce| publisher = Westminster Abbey| url = http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/william-wilberforce| access-date = 21 March 2008|ref=CITEREFWestminster Abbey Online}}</ref>

In Wilberforce's hometown of Hull, a public subscription in 1834 funded the [[Wilberforce Monument]], a {{convert|31|m|ft|adj=on}} [[Greek Doric]] column topped by a statue of Wilberforce, which stands in the grounds of [[Hull College]] near [[Queen's Gardens, Hull|Queen's Gardens]].<ref>{{cite web| title = The Wilberforce Monument| publisher = BBC| url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/content/articles/2007/04/02/wilberforce_monument_feature.shtml| access-date =21 March 2008}}</ref> Wilberforce Memorial School for the Blind in York was established in 1833 in his honour.<ref>{{Harvnb|Oldfield|2007|pp=66–67}}</ref> Wilberforce's birthplace was acquired by the city corporation in 1903 and, following renovation, Wilberforce House in Hull was opened as Britain's first slavery museum.<ref>{{Harvnb|Oldfield|2007|pp=70–71}}</ref> In 2006, the [[University of Hull]] established the [[Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation|Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation]] in a building beside Wilberforce House.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Johnston |first=Chris |date=6 July 2006 |title=Slavery research centre opens at Hull |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/jul/06/highereducation.news |access-date=19 June 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/humber/5155164.stm |title= Centre for slavery research opens |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date= 6 July 2006 |access-date=30 October 2011|ref=CITEREF"Centre for Slavery Research 2006"}}</ref>

Various churches within the [[Anglican Communion]] commemorate Wilberforce in their liturgical calendars,<ref>{{cite book| last = Bradshaw| first = Paul| title = The New SCM Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship| publisher = SCM-Canterbury Press Ltd| year = 2002|page=420| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrVDmaXP6HEC&pg=PA420| isbn = 0-334-02883-3}}</ref> and [[Wilberforce University]] in [[Ohio]], United States, founded in 1856, is named after him. The university was the first owned by [[African-American]] people, and is an [[HBCU|historically black college]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Ackerson|2005|p=145}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| last = Beauregard| first = Erving E.| title = Wilberforce University in "Cradles of Conscience: Ohio's Independent Colleges and Universities" Eds. John William. Oliver Jr., James A. Hodges, and James H. O'Donnell| publisher = Kent State University Press| year = 2003| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZyIwMHacJO0C&q=Wilberforce+University+black+named&pg=PA489| pages = 489–490| isbn =978-0-87338-763-7}}</ref> In [[Ontario, Canada]], the [[Wilberforce Colony]] was founded by black reformers, and inhabited by freed slaves from the United States.<ref>{{Citation|first=Richard S. |last=Newman|title=Freedom's prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black founding fathers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BxN8GXEKspQC&pg=PA271|year=2008|page=271|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-5826-7}}</ref>