Amazing Grace :
Metaxas, Eric.
Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery / Eric Metaxas. - 1st ed. - Oxford UK. Monarch books c2007. - xix, 281p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
9781854248220
2007297972
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833.
Abolitionists--Great Britain--Biography.
HT 1029.W6 / M48 2007
326/.8092
Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery / Eric Metaxas. - 1st ed. - Oxford UK. Monarch books c2007. - xix, 281p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
9781854248220
2007297972
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833.
Abolitionists--Great Britain--Biography.
HT 1029.W6 / M48 2007
326/.8092