Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery » (Bargain)

Eric Metaxas is the author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God (But Were Afraid to Ask) and thirty children's books. He is founder and host of Socrates in the City in New York City, where he lives with his wife and daughter. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Washington Post, Books & Culture, Christianity Today, Mars Hill Review, and First Things. He has written for VeggieTales and Rabbit Ears Productions, earning three Grammy nominations for Best Children's Recording.

Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography—-released simultaneously with the feature-length film of the same name—-chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament.

USA Today

“The little-known story of the lifelong struggle of a member of Parliament to abolish slavery in the British Empire.”

Foreword     ix
Introduction     xiii
Little Wilberforce     1
Into the Wide World     17
Wilberforce Enters Parliament     25
The Great Change     41
Ye Must Be Born Again     63
The Second Great Object: The Reformation of Manners     69
The Proclamation Society     81
The First Great Object: Abolishing the Slave Trade     91
The Zong Incident     103
Abolition or Bust     115
Round One     127
Round Two     139
The Good Fight     147
What Wilberforce Endured     155
Two Loves     167
Clapham's Golden Age     181
Domestic Life at Clapham     195
Victory!     205
Beyond Abolition     215
India     225
Enforcing Abolition     235
Peace and Troubles     247
The Last Battle     263
Epilogue     279
Bibliography     282
Acknowledgments     283
Faith Discussion Guide     285