1807 WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. Autograph Letter from Bishop Mant Congratulating on Anti-Slavery Bill! Reformation Even more fascinatingly

Even more fascinatingly

I hereiwth send you a Bible which I hope God will bless to your soul

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1807 WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. Autograph Letter from Bishop Mant Congratulating on Anti-Slavery Bill! Reformation Even more fascinatinglyA wonderful piece of historical correspondence between Bishop Richard Mant [1776 1848; later Bishop of Ireland] and William Wilberforce. It was in this very year that the important Slave Trade Act of 1807 was passed under the leadership of William Wilberforce. This letter congratulates the Act passed dramatized in the film, Amazing Grace. "September 29, 1807 Dear Sir, I take shame to myself for having so long delayed to avail myself of the opportunity