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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