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 | - |
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.