Tags: Abolition of Slavery , Amazing Grace , Biography , Paperback , William Wilberforce
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign
- Author: Eric Metaxas
- Publisher: Authentic Media
- Availability: Out Of Stock
- ISBN: 9781780783048
- Binding: Paperback
$19.00
Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the 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 centre 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. Before Wilberforce, few thought slavery was unjust. After Wilberforce, most societies in the world came to see it as a great moral wrong.