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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
by Metaxas, Eric
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0061173002
- ISBN 13
- 9780061173004
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
Harperone. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0061173002 . Stiff unmarked book with slightly toned edges. In crisp dust jacket ; 9.2 X 6.4 X 1.1 inches; 281 pages .
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- B-Line Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60183
- Title
- Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
- Author
- Metaxas, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0061173002
- ISBN 13
- 9780061173004
- Publisher
- Harperone
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- 0061173002
- Bookseller catalogs
- History-British;
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B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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