Parliament already for sixteen years. It proved incredibly popular for the time, going through five printings in six months and being translated into five foreign languages. The book makes crystal-clear what drives Wilberforce as a person and a politician. Hearing it from his own mouth, as it were, will make the reading of all the biographies more fruitful. They don’t always put a premium on what he does. So it can easily be missed, if we don’t read Wilberforce first. What made Wilberforce tick was