Daily Readings – William Wilberforce
Michael D. McMullen and William Wilberforce

Leader of campaign to abolish slave trade in UK

From a cross–section of Wilberforce’s writings

365 daily readings

William Wilberforce is best known as the leader of the campaign to abolish the slave trade in the United Kingdom. Behind his heart for justice lay a desire to serve God that permeated not only his life, but also his writings. Michael D. McMullen has worked extensively on the life and manuscripts of Wilberforce and has carefully selected these readings. Taken from his spiritual journals and his one published book, as well as his unpublished works, letters and recorded reflections on scriptures, we meet a man who is introspective and self–deprecating. But his devotion to the God who called him to be an ‘Agent of Usefulness’ is abundantly clear.

Michael D. McMullen

Dr. Michael D. McMullen is Professor of Church History at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City. William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.