Brothers in Love Shake the Mountains - Weebulfos and the Clapham Society

Author: Zhang Wenliang
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: If modern legal history is like a stage play, the scene of William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect abolishing slavery is undoubtedly the climax of the play. This is a biographical account of a war, a war that, though no blood was shed, 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 fight against 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, which had lasted for thousands of years. Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect eventually became misunderstood but universally recognized as paragons of conscience in 19th-century parliamentary politics.