TWENTY YEARS

Synopsis

William Wilberforce is young, rich, popular, and a member of Parliament, and he has been through a conversion. He decides to end the British slave trade. It is the most profitable business in the empire, and everyone who matters profits from it. His old mentor, John Newton, once captained a slave ship. He is the man who wrote "Amazing Grace." A motion fails. A witness will not testify. A friend defects. A new tactic almost works. It will take twenty years and cost him his health, and every year the bill fails, tens of thousands more people are shipped across the Atlantic in chains.

Who this is about

William Wilberforce is a rich and popular young politician who went through a conversion, and John Newton, his old mentor, is a former slave ship captain who wrote "Amazing Grace."

What goes wrong

The trade is the most profitable business in the empire, and everyone who matters profits from it.

What's at stake

Every year the bill fails, tens of thousands more people are shipped across the Atlantic in chains.

Why it keeps going

Each episode is one fight: a failed motion, a witness who will not testify, a friend who defects, a new tactic that almost works.

Takeaway

Perseverance is how a conscience wins in a free country.

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