Bibliograph

Amazing Grace, William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery, Eric Metaxas

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Amazing Grace, William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery, Eric Metaxas

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Amazing Grace

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

81967213

Responsibility statement

Eric Metaxas

Sub title

William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery

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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