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 and Abolishing the Slave Trade: How True Christian Values Ended Support of Slavery. Rusty Wright provides an insightful summary of the journey which led William Wilberforce from heathenism to Christ and to leading the fight to abolish the slave trade in Britain.