Let God fix it

As a young man, William Wilberforce converted to Evangelical Christianity, largely due to the teachings of John Wesley, and immediately became appalled at the inhumanity of the slave trade in which Great Britain, where he was a prominent member of Parliament, was a leader.

He soon became the devoted leader of a decades-long movement to abolish the slave trade. After years of failed attempts, in 1807 he was finally able to persuade Parliament to ban slave trade. He spent the next 25 years of his life devoted to a total ban on all slavery in Great Britain. While on his deathbed in 1833, he heard...