28 Aug 2013

Slavery banned - William Wilberforce

wilberforce by ell brown on FlickrOn this day, 28 August 1833, the British parliament banned slavery throughout the British Empire. This was after thirty years of effort by British Christian evangelicals like William Wilberforce.
Listen again to his story from our Songs of Hope podcast library

Audio SOH-WilliamWilberforce.mp3

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