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Sto caricando le informazioni... William Wilberforce (edizione 2007)di Stephen Tompkins
Informazioni sull'operaWilliam Wilberforce: A Biography di Stephen Tomkins
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. NCLA Review -In the 18th and part of the 19th centuries, Africans of all ages were kidnapped and transported to various islands owned by European countries in the Caribbean and South America. There they worked the fields and labored until death came as a welcomed relief from the brutality, poor food, unsanitary conditions and diseases that shortened their lives. In 1787 William Wilberforce introduced what became the first of many parliamentary bills to stop the slave trade and to abolish slavery in Great Britain. This book covers Wilberforce's profound Christian conversion and his obsession to abolish the slave trade. It also covers the political campaign and the twenty year plus struggle to achieve that goal. Stephen Tomkins, a journalist and author, provides an excellent biography of a complex and very contradictory man. The reader is introduced to an age of conflict, upheaval, conflicting interests and political behind the scenes action. The book was published as part of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Anti Trade Act in conjunction with the release of the movie Amazing Grace. If your church library provides historical biographies, then this book would be a great choice. It is a well written, researched biography containing endnotes, bibliography and index. Perhaps not everyone's cup of tea, but I found it a worthwhile read. Rating: 3 —BS ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
William Wilberforce's name will forever be associated with the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. This lively biography includes primary documentation about the experience of slaves and slave traders. Drawing on his experience as a journalist and a church historian, Tomkins' book traces Wilberforce's early years as the son of a wealthy merchant family in Hull and his dissolute life in Cambridge. Following his work as an MP under Pitt and his evangelical conversion, he became a campaigner for public morality and led the parliamentary movement for the abolition of slavery. The book covers the formation of the "Clapham Sect" and the passing of the Anti-Slave trade act, up to Wilberforce's death just 3 days after the final reading of the Emancipation Bill. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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