Online Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery For Trial

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Online HardCover. Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 304 Publisher: HarperOne Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the itish 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 itish slave trade. a battle Wilberforce won in 1807. as well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the itish 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 itish slave trade. Harp... For Full

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