William Wilberforce

This biography includes 3.5 hours of audio arranged in 15 chapters, each 14 minutes long.

WILLIAM WILBERFORCE (1759 - 1833) was born in Hull, England. He was orphaned at an early age. Just before he finished his B. A. degree, he was elected to Parliament, where he was to remain a member for the rest of his life. His supreme accomplishment as a politician was to abolish slavery in England. As an author, his best known work is "A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professing Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes of this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity." Much of Wilberforce's doctrine may be discerned from this title. Upon his death he was buried in Westminster Abbey.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Lawson, Audrey and Lawson, Herbert The Man Who Freed the Slaves Faber and Faber, 1962 Ludwig, Charles He Freed Britain's Slaves Herald Press, 1977