Beyond any doubt, Hannah More was the most influential female member of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the African Slave Trade. She was educated at Bristol, an important slave-trading town, and began to publish her writing in the 1760s, while she was still a teenager. Her first play, The Inflexible Captive, was staged at Bath in 1775. Later in the 1770s, and for much of the 1780s, she spent time in London and made the acquaintance of many important political and society figures, including Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, and Elizabeth Montagu. Her play Percy was produced by David Garrick in 1777, and Fatal Falsehood was staged in 1779, but she came to regard the theatre as morally wrong, especially after the death of her mentors; G... continue

Richard Wurmbrand

Romanian minister

(1909 - 2001)

Richard Wurmbrand (1909 – 2001) was born in 1909 in Bucharist in the country of Romania. He was the youngest o...
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John Calvin

French Leader

(1509 - 1564)

John Calvin, Martin Luther's successor as the preeminent Protestant theologian, made a powerful impact on the ...
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St. Patrick

Missionary

(385 - 461)

St. Patrick, (flourished 5th century, Britain and Ireland; feast day March 17), patron saint and national apos...
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