Amazing Grace
Subtitle: William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery
By: Eric Metaxas
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780061173004
Subjects: Wilberforce, William, -- 1759-1833; Abolitionists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [282])
Table of contents: title: Little Wilberforce; title: Into the Wide World; title: Wilberforce Enters Parliament; title: The Great Change; title: Ye Must Be Born Again; title: The Second Great Object: The Reformation of Manners; title: The Proclamation Society; title: The First Great Object: Abolishing the Slave Trade; title: The Zong Incident; title: Abolition or Bust; title: Round One; title: Round Two; title: The Good Fight; title: What Wilberforce Endured; title: Two Loves; title: Clapham's Golden Age; title: Domestic Life at Clapham; title: Victory!; title: Beyond Abolition; title: India; title: Enforcing Abolition; title: Peace and Troubles; title: The Last Battle