"One of the most moving and memorable historical biographies in our time."
--Church Times

William Wilberforce is chiefly remembered as the reformer who campaigned for the abolition
of the slave trade in England. He was at the heart of British politics for over forty years during
the inflammatory times of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. He lived just long
enough to see the passage of the Act to emancipate all slaves in British territories.

Drawing on a vast array of previously unpublished manuscripts, John Pollock presents a full
picture of the man: "exciting, lovable, delightful, with faults which must have maddened his
friends."