Eric Metaxas has written two fine biographies about historical figures who have faded into undeserved obscurity, William Wilberforce (leader of the English abolitionist movement in the early ...

The Society of Friends (a Christian group also known as the Quakers ... the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was set up. William Wilberforce MP represented the Society in Parliament.

The first group to publicly announce its opposition to slavery was the Society of Friends (a Christian group also ... the Slave Trade was set up. William Wilberforce MP represented the Committee ...