Amazing Grace Page #8

why my bill should not be commended to the king.

And I urge my honourable friends

to vote once and for all

for the abolition of the slave trade

throughout His Majesty's empire.

They're taking the vote!

Here's the tally.

Order!

Order!

On the Home and Foreign Slave Trade Act,

the unamended bill calling for

the abolition of the slave trade

throughout the entire British Empire.

No's to the left: 16.

Ayes to the right: 283.

I declare the bill of abolition

of the slave trade to be passed.

Noblesse oblige.

What the bloody hell does that mean?

It means my nobility obliges me

to recognise the virtue of an exceptional commoner.

Order!

Order!

When people speak of great men,

they think of men like Napoleon.

Men of violence.

Rarely do they think of peaceful men.

But contrast the reception they'll receive

when they return home from their battles.

Napoleon will arrive in pomp and in power.

A man who's achieved the very summit of earthly ambition.

Yet his dreams will be haunted by the oppressions of war.

William Wilberforce, however,

will return to his family,

lay his head on his pillow

and remember

the slave trade is no more.

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