William Wilberforce (1759–1833) was a politician ... This biography, based on his own writings, was published by two of his sons in 1838, but sheds more light on religious than on political aspects of ...

William Wilberforce (1759–1833) was a politician ... This biography, based on his own writings, was published by two of his sons in 1838, but sheds more light on religious than on political aspects of ...

William Wilberforce was born in 1759 in Hull, East Yorkshire. He attended Cambridge University, where he became friends with the future prime minister, William Pitt the Younger. In 1780 ...

The Abraham-Lincoln-like figure in England was William Wilberforce ... with social consequences should learn from the life and legacy of Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect. He invested his life ...

Meet the heart of William Wilberforce’s abolitionist movement. William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect founded Sierra Leone, then tolerated a form of slavery there, a new book reveals.