Amazing Grace Metaxas Eric
Amazing Grace Metaxas Eric Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). Before Wilberforce, few thought slavery was wrong. This…
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Amazing Grace Metaxas Eric
Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). Before Wilberforce, few thought slavery was wrong. 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.
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