Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
March 19, 2007
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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery By Eric Metaxas / Harpercollins Hero to Abraham Lincoln and an inspiration to the anti-slavery movement in America, Wilberforce worked tirelessly for the cessation of slavery in England. In this magisterial biography, Metaxas chronicles Wilberforce’s conversion to evangelical Christianity and his 20-year battle to abolish the slave trade in the British empire. An extraordinary portrait of a true Christian statesman. 224 pages, hardcover from HarperSanFrancisco. |
A great quote from Wilberforce — on June 21, 1786 he writes in his diary
To endeavour from this moment to amend my plan for time. I hope to live more than heretofore to God’s glory and my fellow-creatures’ good.
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