"Never, never will we desist until we have wiped away this scandal from the Christian name, released ourselves from the load of guilt, and extinguished every trace of this bloody traffic." Nearly 100 years before the American Civil War, William Wilberforce took up the crusade to abolish the slave trade across the breadth of the British Empire. This is the story of how a short, sickly man born to privilege became one of the greatest statesmen in the history of the United Kingdom and the Christian faith.