Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery  -     By: Eric Metaxas

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

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Hero to Abraham Lincoln and an inspiration to the anti-slavery movement in America, Wilberforce worked tirelessly for the cessation of slavery in England. In this magisterial biography, Metaxas chronicles Wilberforce's conversion to evangelical Christianity and his 20-year battle to abolish the slave trade in the British empire. An extraordinary portrait of a true Christian statesman. 304 pages, softcover from HarperSanFrancisco.

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Title: Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
By: Eric Metaxas
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 304
Vendor: HarperOne
Publication Date: 2008
Dimensions: 8.00 X 5.31 (inches)
Weight: 10 ounces
ISBN: 0061173886
ISBN-13: 9780061173882
Stock No: WW173880

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Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British 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 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 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 British slave trade, HarperSanFrancisco and Bristol Bay Productions have joined together to commemorate the life of William Wilberforce with the feature-length film Amazing Grace and this companion biography, which provides a fuller account of the amazing life of this great man than can be captured on film.

This account of Wilberforce's life will help many become acquainted with an exceptional man who was a hero to Abraham Lincoln and an inspiration to the anti-slavery movement in America.

Author Bio

Eric Metaxas is the author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God (But Were Afraid to Ask) and thirty children's books. He is founder and host of Socrates in the City in New York City, where he lives with his wife and daughter. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Washington Post, Books & Culture, Christianity Today, Mars Hill Review, and First Things. He has written for VeggieTales and Rabbit Ears Productions, earning three Grammy nominations for Best Children's Recording.

Editorial Reviews

“A fine and important book.” — Chicago Sun-Times

“The little-known story of the lifelong struggle of a member of Parliament to abolish slavery in the British Empire.” — USA Today

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