Wilberforce
Skip contents

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Wilberforce’s early career
    • 1.1 Early influences
    • 1.2 Upbringing; MP for Yorkshire
    • 1.3 Wilberforce’s ‘Conversion’ to Evangelicalism
    • 1.4 Wilberforce in Parliament
  • 2 Britain and the French Revolution
  • 3 Britain in the 1790s
  • 4 Wilberforce’s A Practical View
    • 4.1 The impact of A Practical View
    • 4.2 The ‘inadequate consciousness of the real teachings of Christianity’
    • 4.3 Religion and political stability
    • 4.4 Political implications
    • 4.5 The interaction of religion and society
    • 4.6 Contemporary reactions
  • 5 Wilberforce and slavery
    • 5.1 Leading the fight against slavery
    • 5.2 Wilberforce’s anti-slavery campaign in context
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Keep on learning
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Acknowledgements

ou logoCreative Commons non-commercial share alike icon Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence

Please see full copyright statement and terms of use for more details.