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Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery / Eric Metaxas.

by Metaxas, Eric.

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New York : HarperSanFrancisco, c2007.

Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833.

Abolitionists -- Great Britain -- Biography.

xix, 281p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

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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