Amazing Grace – The William Wilberforce Story

Kathleen Parker of The Washington Post Writers Group pens an essay about the role of Christians, particularly William Wilberforce, in ending the slave trade of Africans. Wilberforce is to be the subject of a major motion picture entitled: Amazing Grace: The William Wilberforce Story. The movie’s release is being timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Britain’s abolition of slavery (February 2007).
In 2002, John Piper delivered this biographical sketch of William Wilberforce.
Parker mentions another forthcoming film, an independent documentary Let My People Go, which deals with today’s global sex trade.