This is the title of a book describing the life of William Wilberforce, Member of the British parliament from 1778 to 1825. He achieved two seemingly impossible things: Abolition of slave trade; ...

Later in his life, he bought his freedom ... His evidence was used by Member of Parliament William Wilberforce. Starting in 1789, Wilberforce regularly introduced bills in Parliament proposing ...

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 ...