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| Publisher: HARPERPRESS |
| Publication Date: 04/06/2007 |
| Format: Hardback |
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An indomitable champion of the greatest cause of all
William Wilberforce was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the 18th-century slave trade. Coinciding with the bicentenary of the trade’s abolition, William Hague’s accomplished biography brilliantly illuminates Wilberforce's eventful life and career.
Born into wealth and idleness, Wilberforce grew into a man who combined friendship, philanthropy and evangelism with immense social and political achievements. While shunning all honours, titles and ministerial positions, he became one of the most influential Britons ever.
An exceptional orator and tactician, Wilberforce spearheaded a 20-year-long pro-abolition campaign in Parliament. With his small band of allies, Wilberforce took on powerful vested interests and political opponents, to secure eventual and dramatic triumph in 1807.
Offering a politician's insights into the obstacles Wilberforce contended with, Hague shows how Wilberforce's conviction and faith sustained his independence and beliefs in a turbulent era. Hague’s compelling tribute also demonstrates how the slave trade’s eradication was genuinely a lifetime’s work, paving the way for the abolition of slavery itself throughout the British Empire.
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