William Wilberforce : A Biography

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A British human rights hero engagingly portrayed

In the 1780s, around 40,000 slaves a year were taken from Africa in British ships, on the notorious “Middle Passage,” to the Caribbean. In 1787, under an oak tree in Kent, the British Prime Minister, William Pitt, invited his friend William Wilberforce to introduce a parliamentary bill outlawing the slave trade. Neither of them imagined a 20 year political campaign that would consume the rest of Wilberforce’s life.

Born in Hull, England, to wealthy middle-class parents, Wilberforce entered Parliament and became a political celebrity in his day.

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SKU (ISBN): 9780802825933
ISBN10: 0802825931
Stephen Tomkins
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: July 2007
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

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