Amazing Grace
by Eric Metaxas
William Wilberforce and the abolition of the British slave trade: conversion, decades of persistence, the Clapham circle. Inspiring biography.
Read it if…
you want a model of long faithful political work.
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Skip it if…
you want a history of abolition broadly.
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Three things you will actually use
- Persist for decades.
- Work in community.
- Faith acts.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the first failed bills.
Our verdict
Wilberforce.
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