The Forty-Year Campaign of William Wilberforce

In 1787, a young British parliamentarian named William Wilberforce sat at his desk in a London study, reading testimony from the holds of slave ships. The accounts were almost unbearable — men and women chained in rows, children separated from mothers, human beings treated as cargo. Wilberforce was only twenty-eight years old, but he had recently come to faith in Christ, and something in those pages broke him open.…