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Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery Cover Image Book Book

Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery

Metaxas, Eric. (Author).

Summary: Tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce, and his 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. This is 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.--From publisher description.

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  • ISBN: 0061173886
  • ISBN: 9780061173882
  • Physical Description: print
    xix, 298 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Harpercollins paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : HarperOne, 2008.

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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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