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 battl...

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1. Verfasser:	Metaxas, Eric (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	San Francisco, Calif. Harper San francisco 2007
Ausgabe:	1. ed.
Schlagworte:	Wilberforce, William <1759-1833> Wilberforce, William > 1759-1833 Geschichte 1785-1833 Abolitionists > Great Britain > Biography Abolitionismus Großbritannien Biografie Biographie
Zusammenfassung:	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.--From publisher description.
Beschreibung:	XIX, 281 S., [8] Bl. Ill.
ISBN:	9780061173004