Description
Amazing Grace tells the tale of the outstanding lifetime of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This available biography chronicles Wilberforce’s abnormal position as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament.
On the heart of this heroic lifestyles used to be a passionate twenty-yr battle to abolish the British slave business, a struggle Wilberforce gained in 1807, in addition to efforts to abolish slavery itself within the British colonies, a victory accomplished simply 3 days Earlier than his demise in 1833.
Metaxas discovers on this unsung hero a person of whom it might probably in reality be mentioned: he modified the sector. Earlier than Wilberforce, few concept slavery used to be mistaken. After Wilberforce, so much societies on the planet got here to look it as a perfect ethical mistaken.
To mark the two hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the British slave business, HarperSanFrancisco and Bristol Bay Productions have joined in combination to commemorate the lifetime of William Wilberforce with the function-period movie Amazing Grace and this spouse biography, which gives a fuller account of the fantastic lifetime of this nice guy than may also be captured on movie.
This account of Wilberforce’s lifestyles will lend a hand many develop into familiar with an excellent guy who used to be a hero to Abraham Lincoln and an idea to the anti-slavery motion in The us.
