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

Metaxas, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061173886 ISBN 13: 9780061173882

Publisher: HarperOne, 2007

Synopsis

Amazing Grace Now available in paperback, this short, popular biography of England's heroic abolitionist commemorates the 200th anniversary of the defeat of slavery and is the official tie-in book for the movie Amazing Grace by Walden Media

About this title

Review:

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

"A fine and important book."--Chicago Sun-Times

From the Back Cover:

Amazing Grace is the biography of William Wilberforce, a British statesman and reformer from the early part of the 19th century. It chronicles his extraordinary contributions to the world, primarily his 20-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, which he won in 1807. He was also instrumental in passing legislation to abolish slavery in the British colonies, a victory he won just three days before his death in 1833. He was a hero to Abraham Lincoln and an inspiration to the anti-slavery movement in America. America needs to become reacquainted with this moral hero.
This biography of one of the foremost abolitionists of Britain's anti-slavery movement is the official tie-in book to the film Amazing Grace by Walden Media. The hardcover edition spent four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061173886
• ISBN 13: 9780061173882
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320