William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner [1 ed.] 0151012679, 9780151012671

From William Hague comes a major biography of abolitionist William Wilberforce, the man who fought for twenty years to a

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William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner [1 ed.]
0151012679, 9780151012671

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