| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xix, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [282]). |
| Contents |
Little Wilberforce -- Into the wide world -- Wilberforce enters Parliament -- The great change -- Ye must be born again -- The second great object: the reformation of manners -- The proclamation society -- The first great object: abolishing the slave trade -- The Zong incident -- Abolition or bust -- Round one -- Round two -- The good fight -- What Wilberforce endured -- Two loves -- Clapham's golden age -- Domestic life at Clapham -- Victory! -- Beyond abolition -- India -- Enforcing abolition -- Peace and troubles -- The last battle. |
| Summary |
Tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce, and his 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. This is 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. |
| Subject |
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833.
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Abolitionists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0061173002: $21.95 |
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9780061173004 |
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