Walnut is located at 34Â°56â²57â³N 88Â°54â²35â³W / 34.94917Â°N 88.90972Â°W / 34.94917; -88.90972 (34.949109, -88.909812). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.4 square miles (14 km2), of which 5.4 square miles (14 km2) is land and 0.04-square-mile (0.10 km2) (0.37%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 754 people, 319 households, and 202 families residing in the town.
William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 â 29 July 1833) was an English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.n 1826, Wilberforce moved from his large house in Kensington Gore to Highwood Hill, a more modest property in the countryside of Mill Hill, north of London, where he was soon joined by his son William and family.
William Wilberforce was born in 1759 in the port town of Hull in North-East England. His family were merchants trading with Russia and the Baltic States.He had a privileged background going to Cambridge University before becoming the MP for Hull at just 21.He was the youngest member of the House of Commons.n 1789, following his conversion to Christianity, Wilberforce became the voice in Parliament of the Abolition Movement; joining campaigners such as the Quakers, Thomas Clarkson and the former enslaved African Olaudah Equiano.