How can William Wilberforce in good faith be called an abolitionist of slavery? The slave trade is not slavery, that's just only the slave trade and we look down on that abolitionism.

Full question that I asked: William Wilberforce only ever passed laws to abolish the slave trade. How can he in good faith be called an abolitionist of slavery? The slave trade is not slavery, that's just only the slave trade and we look down on that abolitionism and do not consider it true abolitionism.------------------------ Your distinction is historically important: abolishing the slave trade is not the same thing as abolishing slavery. The slave trade concerns the buying, selling, and transportation of enslaved people; slavery is the underlying institution in which people are held in bondage. A country can prohibit the...