He helped change slavery but he still ended up in jail for it.

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Disclaimer: I feel it's probably necessary for me to say that the nature of the slavery was not the ordinary and might be a trigger to some. I'm not going to go into detail as to keep this "PG" but felt it still necessary to write a disclaimer. W.T. Stead was a Victorian man who set out to expose the underbelly of London, England. He had been set upon his task by the Chamberlain of London at the time. His task was to expose the selling of humans for unsavory tasks and his means of doing so was clever. He procured a girl at the cost of £5 (£574 in 2014 currency) from her mother. She was safely taken away to France, but not before a sort of experiment was set. I won't go into detail of that, but she was safe and in no way harmed. He then set to write The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon. His writing set about a chain of events that would cause tighter laws to be made to protect women and children. He, however, would be charged with abduction and procurement. Source : Wikipedia - Eliza Armstrong Case