In the present confusion over religion and public life—and the accompanying opportunism—the life and career of William Wilberforce provides a needed tonic. Best remembered as the liberator of African ...

March 25, 2007 will mark the 200th anniversary of the passage of a bill outlawing the slave trade in Britain. A new film details the drama behind that victory. Amazing Grace is a story of idealism and ...

This year marks the 200th Anniversary of the British Parliament passing the act to abolish the slave trade. In response and memoriam of a deplorable past, many have found comfort and fellowship by ...

“Amazing Grace,” a story of idealism, idealists and speaking truth to power, understands there is something inordinately moving and dramatic about a man who stands up for what is right and makes a ...

Michael Apted’s well-intentioned yet often pedantic “Amazing Grace” is a good — and important — story, not always well told. It’s a fact-based, historical drama about a hero whose name many of us may ...

Below are two letters on “Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the struggle to end the British slave trade” and a reply by the review’s author, Joanne Laurier. To the editor, I read a review by ...

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, ...

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 ...

"Amazing Grace" is a workmanlike costumer that distills Blighty's long battle for the abolition of slavery and the personalities behind landmark antislavery legislation into a tidy story of conscience ...

"Amazing Grace" is a workmanlike costumer that distills Blighty's long battle for the abolition of slavery and the personalities behind landmark antislavery legislation into a tidy story of conscience ...

On a dark night just outside London, a big, horse-drawn carriage made its way through a driving rainstorm. One of its occupants was a handsome young man named William Wilberforce. As the carriage made ...