Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
Record details
- ISBN: 0061173886
- ISBN: 9780061173882
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Physical Description:
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xix, 298 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm - Edition: First Harpercollins paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : HarperOne, 2008.
- Copyright: ©2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: New York, NY : HarperSanFrancisco, ©2007. "Includes a discussion guide to the Amazing Grace movie."--Cover. Discussion guide (p. [285]-297). |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 282) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Little Wilberforce -- Into the wide world -- Wilberforce enters parliament -- The great change -- Ye must be born again -- The second great object : the reformation of manners -- The Proclamation Society -- The first great objection : abolishing the slave trade -- The zong incident -- Abolition or bust -- Round one -- Round two -- The good fight -- What Wilberforce endured -- Two loves -- Clapham's golden age -- Domestic life at Clapham -- Victory! -- Beyond abolition -- Peace and troubles -- The last battle. |
Language Note: | Text in English. |
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Subject: | Wilberforce, William 1759-1833 Abolitionists Great Britain Biography |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | HT 1029 .W55 M38 2008 | 30775305526130 | General Collection | Available | - |
Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
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Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce won in 1807, as well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the British colonies, a victory achieved just three days before his death in 1833. Metaxas discovers in this unsung hero a man of whom it can truly be said: he changed the world. Before Wilberforce, few thought slavery was wrong. After Wilberforce, most societies in the world came to see it as a great moral wrong. To mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade, HarperSanFrancisco and Bristol Bay Productions have joined together to commemorate the life of William Wilberforce with the feature-length film Amazing Grace and this companion biography, which provides a fuller account of the amazing life of this great man than can be captured on film. This account of Wilberforce's life will help many become acquainted with an exceptional man who was a hero to Abraham Lincoln and an inspiration to the anti-slavery movement in America.