Brothers' love moves mountains and shakes rivers

Author: Zhang Wenliang
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Publish Date: 2006-12-18
Features: If modern legal history is like a stage play, the scene of William Wilberforce and the Clapham Society abolishing slavery is undoubtedly the climax. This is a biographical account of a war, a war that, though no one lost blood, was equally intense and cruel, fought within the House of Commons. Eight Members of Parliament, eight Christians, with different professions, parties, personalities, and backgrounds, came together to defeat slavery. With their legal expertise, rational thinking, humanitarian spirit, and the power of faith, they remained steadfast in their convictions for 50 long years amidst overwhelming opposition, curses, threats, boycotts, bribery, and pressure. They did not resort to mob actions but instead used patient, peaceful legislative processes to successfully break the legal shackles that bound thousands of enslaved people, helping them gain freedom and ending the institution of slavery on the European continent for thousands of years. William Wilberforce and the Clapham Society were eventually misunderstood and became recognized as paragons of conscience in 19th-century parliamentary politics.