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Author:

Metaxas, Eric.

Title:

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

Edition:

1st Harpercollins pbk ed.

Publisher:

HarperOne,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xix, 297 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Wilberforce, William,--1759-1833.
Abolitionists--Great Britain--Biography.
Wilberforce, William,--1759-1833.
Legislators--Great Britain--Biography.
Abolitionists--Great Britain--Biography.
Philanthropists--Great Britain--Biography.
Great Britain--Politics and government.
Great Britain--History--1714-1837.

Notes:

"Includes a discussion guide to the Amazing Grace movie."--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]). Discussion guide (p. [285]-297).

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0061173886
9780061173882

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

PEPC626 -- Stilwell Public Library (New Sharon)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)