Marking the 200th anniversary of the outlawing of the British slave trade, a new film commemorates the remarkable life of abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). Amazing Grace from British ...

The latest is called William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner. Scott Simon speaks to the author about how Wilberforce's personality and religious faith informed his ...

Others document and reflect on the culmination of such change. A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, by William ...

While studying Wilberforce’s manuscripts, I read in a diary entry dated October 28, 1787 “God Almighty has set before me two great objectives, the abolition of the slave trade, and the ...

The subject of Hague's latest is William Wilberforce, the British parliamentarian who carried on an often lonely 20-year fight against the slave trade before finally seeing it outlawed in 1808.

In this exquisite collection of travel dispatches, memoirist and novelist Taseer (The Dog of Tithwal) reflects on his relationship to place, what it means to be cut off from Continue reading ...

It also inspires him to devote his life to the abolition of the slave trade. The student's name was Thomas Clarkson. He, along with another Englishman, William Wilberforce, would lead this fight ...

Today is the birthday of William Wilberforce. Abraham Lincoln once ... But he is best remembered as the person most responsible for the slave trade being outlawed in the British Empire, which ...

William Wilberforce used his political skills, as well as his principles, to move the mighty British Empire to not only ban the slave trade but enlisted the Royal Navy, then the strongest military ...