This is Weekend Edition from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. William Wilberforce was an abolitionist, a legislator, friend of the mighty and foe of powerful forces. He was also the life of the party, the ...

Today is the birthday of William Wilberforce. Abraham Lincoln once said that Wilberforce’s name is one every schoolboy should know. Yet I suspect that many of you will not recognize him. Born in 1759, ...

THERE WERE FEARFUL LOOKS as a lone protestor disrupted the solemn service at Westminster Abbey marking the 200th anniversary of the Parliamentary act to abolish the slave trade. “This is an insult to ...

This month, January 2023, marks the 250th anniversary of the classic hymn, “Amazing Grace.” The Museum of the Bible writes: “It was January 1, 1773. John Newton led his congregation down the road from ...

LONDON—Great Britain passed a law. America fought a war. The international legacy of slavery is more complicated than two sentences, but the above words are a good summary of the amazing path ...

The life of Englishman William Wilberforce and his successful campaign to abolish slavery in Britain and its colonies is the focus of a biography, “Amazing Grace” by author Eric Metaxas, who will ...

Most Americans fail to credit the work of England's great politician William Wilberforce and first, the work of Jesus Christ in his life, for the end of slavery in the U.S. This month we celebrate the ...

In the fierce struggles of the 19th century to abolish slavery, Abraham Lincoln remains the mythic American champion. In Britain, however, that honor belongs to William Wilberforce, the Christian ...

ELMINA, Ghana (Reuters) - Two hundred years after Britain's abolition of the slave trade, Africans marked the anniversary on Sunday with a sombre ceremony recalling the suffering of their ancestors ...