Tag Archives: William Wilberforce

chains and chimes of freedom

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Dave

John Howard, friend of the Josiah Wedgwood circle, worked for prison reform, striding through the foul smelling jails of eighteenth-century England, in Erasmus Darwin’s words, “if not to sever, to relax the chains.” They themselves pressed for the abolition of … Continue reading →

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KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF & DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Dave

The West is familiar with the history of slavery in the new world. It was sinful and terrible, and it lasted for several hundred years. And it was abolished mainly through the efforts of Christians in England such as Wilberforce … Continue reading →