Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery.
by Metaxas, Eric
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 1780783043
- ISBN 13
- 9781780783048
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About This Item
Milton Keynes: Authentic Media, 2017. Reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, lightly toned, spine ends little scuffed, corners covers & bottom corner tips last few pages little creased, minor edgewear. 305 pp. Eric Metaxas writes a gripping narrative that paints a detailed portrait not only of William Wilberforce himself and the Abolitionist Movement, but also other contemporary concerns of the social reformers. There are entries from Wilberforce's own diaries documenting his travels and the people he meets. This age is brought to life. William Wilberforce was born in Hull, England in 1759. He was not a well child, and grew into a small frail man. However, he was one of the brightest, wittiest, best-connected and generally talented men of his day, and a member of Parliament at the age of 21. He turned the world upside down by achieving the abolition of the British slave trade and the end of slavery in the British colonies.
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31055
- Title
- Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery.
- Author
- Metaxas, Eric
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1780783043
- ISBN 13
- 9781780783048
- Publisher
- Authentic Media
- Place of Publication
- Milton Keynes
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- history, criminology, slavery, britain
- Bookseller catalogs
- CRIMINOLOGY;
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