Amazing Grace

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attending St. John’s College in Cambridge, he met William Pitt, a long time friend, fellow anti-slave-trade lobbyist, and the future Prime Minister. When Wilberforce was twenty-six years old, he became an evangelical Christian, resulting in a lifelong concern for reform. Shortly after, he came in contact with Thomas Clarkson, the founder of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and a group of anti-slave-trade lobbyists, who convinced him to join their cause. It took little persuading as William was already intrigued by the thought of abolishment after hearing Rev. James Ramsay’s horrifying accounts of the conditions endured by the slaves. It wasn’t long before Wilberforce became one of the leading English Abolitionists. When Clarkson presented Wilberforce with the suggestion that he bring forward the abolition of the slave trade in Parliament, he claimed that “he felt the great importance of the subject, and thought himself unequal to the task allotted to him, but ...

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