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

Eric Metaxas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780783043 ISBN 13: 9781780783048

Publisher: Authentic Media, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author:

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, Washington Post and Christianity Today. He has written for Veggie Tales and Rabbit Ears Productions, earning three Grammy nominations for Best Children s Recording.

About this edition

• Publisher: Authentic Media
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780783043
• ISBN 13: 9781780783048
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344