Wilberforce

Name: Wilberforce
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: John Pollock
ISBN: 9781441797759

Author: John Pollock

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 15 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/28/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

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 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.

About John Pollock

John Pollock, a Cambridge-educated clergyman, is the author of countless biographies and the official biographer of Billy Graham. He has written accounts of Wesley, Shaftesbury, Whitefield, Kitchener, Hudson Taylor, Wilberforce, John Newton, Moody, and others. He lives with his wife in Devon, England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laurel on February 18, 2020

A thorough, well researched biography of the great Christian parliamentarian who brought about the abolition of the slave trade from the British Empire.......more

Goodreads review by Josh on May 19, 2020

I was glad to have read this book, another strong biography from Pollock. It took a while, and early on I had fears that I would be drowned by the complexity of English titles and name-dropping to weave family relations together. This lessened, though it continued throughout the book as Wilberforce......more

Goodreads review by Faustina on November 12, 2023

Dry, dull and tedious. And did I say dry?......more

Goodreads review by Ross on May 27, 2015

After watching "Amazing Grace" I decided to find out what Wilberforce was actually like, and was debating between this and Belmonte's biographies. When I saw that Belmonte had earlier won "The John Pollock Award," I knew that one author stood taller than the other! This is a very conservative biograp......more

Goodreads review by Mark on October 21, 2019

Inspiring, sympathetic, rigorous, well written, and EXTREMELY British (it helped that the audiobook reader had just the right RP accent). A fair number of the minor details were lost on me, ignorant as I am of 18th century British political practices. But my mind stayed engaged with the narrative an......more