Assertion: billy's role | /r/HasProperty | downplayed by historian eric williams
Facets:
value: in the 1940s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In the 1940s, the role of Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect in abolition was downplayed by historian Eric Williams, who argued that abolition was motivated not by humanitarianism but by economics, as the West Indian sugar industry was in decline.