One church – two sides of an argument

David 2020, Abolition, Bible, British, Church, CofE, David Olusoga, George Hibbert, History, Slavery, Things they didn't teach me at school, William Wilberforce Leave a Comment

I recently discovered something new whilst reading David Olusoga’s Black and British: A Forgotten History. It concerns William Wilberforce and another man called George Hibbert. These two men lived opposite each other on Clapham Common and worshipped together at Holy Trinity on the North side of the common which had strong evangelic roots. If you visit the church today you …

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Olaudah Equiano

David 2019, Abolition, Akala, British, History, Justice, Liberation, Methodist, Olaudah Equiano, Slavery, Things they didn't teach me at school, William Wilberforce Leave a Comment

Here then is my first post in the series ‘Things they didn’t teach me at school!’ One of the points raised in Akala’s book Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire – The Sunday Times Bestseller and one that I have seen raised elsewhere, is that much of the history we are taught in school is extremely one-sided. …