Amazing Grace

Take them on. Blow their dirty, filthy ships out of the water.

Wilberforce, conditions in Jamaica are far more brutal than I could have imagined.

It was a beautiful day like no other, the last day I saw my home in Africa.

It seems my young friend opposite has a long-term strategy to destroy the very nation that spawned him.

I've spent 18 months being torn apart by you in the House, Mr Wilberforce.

That smell is the smell of death.

All that winter, we spread out across the country gathering evidence for Parliament.

Winds blow ships from Africa to the Indies naturally, as if the route were blessed by God.

My honourable friend, the member for Liverpool, seeks evidence of people's concern.

First, let me be clear.

Africa, your sufferings have been a theme that has engaged and arrested my heart.

It's now five years since you first brought this bill to the House.