Amazing Grace: Wilberforce in museums and on the web

After looking at Wilberforce on film and in books, we now turn to museums:

• The Long Road to Freedom is a travelling exhibition from Leicestershire museums to mark the bicentenary of the Act to Abolish the Slave Trade. This will be based at Donington le Heath Manor House from 12 July - 23 September 2007. The exhibition reveals local connections with the slave trade, and with those who battled to abolish slavery itself.
• Wilberforce Central is a private, non-profit alliance established to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British and the U.S. slave trade (1807-2007) with a celebration of the William Wilberforce and the Clapham Group and an examination of their legacy as it affects today’s issues.
• Wilberforce House Museum in Hull was the birthplace and residence of Wilberforce, who was a Member of Parliament for Hull in the 19th century. The city is hosting a large number of events during 2007 to commemorate and celebrate the life and legacy of Hull’s most famous son.
• The British Library offers a list of sources on for the slave trade and abolition held in its collections.

• Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery is an online exhibition from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. It presents a variety of original documents and images highlighting the story of the abolition of slavery between 1787 and 1865 in England and America.