William Wilberforce's name will forever be associated with the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Stephen Tomkins' book covers: early years as son of a wealthy merchant family in Hull; dissolute life in Cambridge; work as MP under Pitt; evangelical conversion; campaigner for public morality; leads parliamentary movement for the abolition of slavery; forms the "Clapham Sect'; anti-slave trade law; and, how he died 3 days after final reading of the Emancipation Bill. Through the book, the author includes primary documentation about the experience of slaves and the activities of slavers.
Product details
- Paperback | 224 pages
- 138 x 216 x 14mm | 453.59g
- 19 Jan 2007
- LION HUDSON LTD
- Lion Books
- Oxford, United Kingdom
- English
- New.
- 0745952321
- 9780745952321
- 808,372
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