This is Weekend Edition from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. William Wilberforce was an abolitionist, a legislator, friend of the mighty and foe of powerful forces. He was also the life of the party, the ...

Today is the birthday of William Wilberforce. Abraham Lincoln once said that Wilberforce’s name is one every schoolboy should know. Yet I suspect that many of you will not recognize him. Born in 1759, ...

My column last month explored the possibility that Pope Francis, in his new apostolic exhortation on the environment, Laudate Deum, might have pushed forward Catholic teaching on the status, treatment ...

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. In Film ...

Over the past couple of years, as I have been writing for The Washington Times, I have repeatedly argued that ideas have consequences. I have stated over and over again that what we believe always ...

LONDON—Great Britain passed a law. America fought a war. The international legacy of slavery is more complicated than two sentences, but the above words are a good summary of the amazing path ...

In March 2007, on the two-hundredth anniversary of the British parliament’s decision to abolish the slave trade, there was a flurry of contention in the letters pages of several newspapers and blogs.

When after much struggle and effort, the abolition bill passed in 1807, William Wilberforce said to his friend Henry Thornton, “Well, Henry, what shall we abolish next?” The comment illustrates ...

All writers can be guilty of playing a one-string banjo. We all have an ax to grind, a singular message, a stump speech. Mine is pretty obvious. I have said it over and over again: Ideas matter. There ...