Abolition! (Newton and Wilberforce) – John Pollock

Description

A small boy aged ten was
playing in the grounds of his uncle’s
rural villa on the edge of Wimbledon
Common in the summer of 1769 when
the family carriage drew up at the door.
The carriage contained the boy’s uncle
and a clergyman in his forties. The boy
was the young William Wilberforce, and
the clergyman was John Newton. No one
in 1769 would have foreseen that these
two men would be the key characters in
the abolition of the slave trade in 1807.
Here, John Pollock tells the story of how
they came from different backgrounds
and amazingly different earlier lives to
build a strong friendship and partnership
in the gospel—and how God used them
to achieve a great victory in the British
Parliament and US Congress against the
slave trade.