In this book, the author illuminates Wilberforce's turbulent life and career, offering a politician's insights into the parliamentary manoeuvres and electoral dramas with which he had to contend He shows how Wilberforce's conviction and faith allowed him to hold fast to his independence and beliefs even at a time of war, revolution and social upheaval And he demonstrates how the eradication of the slave trade was genuinely the work of a lifetime, paving the way for the abolition of slavery itself throughout the British Empire