The first evangelical conservatives
By Michael Gerson | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 | The Washington Post
“…On May 12, 1787, under an English oak on his Holwood Estate, Prime Minister William Pitt pressed a young member of Parliament named William Wilberforce to introduce a bill for the abolition of the slave trade. Wilberforce’s research found that the holds of slave ships were, according to one witness, ‘so covered in blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the (dysentery) that it resembled a slaughterhouse.’ Enslaved Africans on the ships attempted to starve themselves to death or to jump into the ocean. Wilberforce thought this suffering a good reason for reform….”…BS
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Wilberforce was an astounding personality in his time (and maybe in any time). I heartily recommend the film “Amazing Grace,” which is the story of Wilberforce’s founding of the first abolitionist movement.
Peace.
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