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.
Martin Robison Delany. Abolitionist Martin Robison Delany was both a physician and newspaper editor, and became one of the most influential and successful anti-slavery activists of the 19th century. Synopsis Born in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), on May 6, 1812, Martin Robison Delany spent his life working to end slavery. He was a successful physicianâone of the first African Americans admitted to Harvard Medical Schoolâwho used his influence to educate others about the evils of slavery with a number of abolitionist publications. He later served in the Civil War. Delany died on January 24, 1885, in Wilberforce, Ohio.