William Wilberforce

Meet the heart of William Wilberforce’s abolitionist movement.

William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect founded Sierra Leone, then tolerated a form of slavery there, a new book reveals.

Learning from reformers, past and present.

In Film Forum’s final week at CT Movies, Jeffrey Overstreet reflects on the column’s seven-year run. Plus: Wilberforce’s testimony dazzles us in Amazing Grace, but The Astronaut Farmer, The Number 23, and Reno 911: Miami are disappointing.

Antislavery politician

One hundred fifty years before C. S. Lewis, William Wilberforce wrote the Mere Christianity of his time.

William Wilberforce saw two long charitable campaigns through, even in war’s distracting shadow

Public television’s sympathetic take on Wilberforce.

Amazing Grace shows Wilberforce in action.

Thanks to William Wilberforce, we already know the key to defeating slavery.