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#1 Wilberforce was born into a wealthy merchant family in Hull, England. The city was the fourth-largest port in England, but it was the only one that did not participate in the slave trade.
#2 Wilberforce was a child who was extremely bright and extremely sickly. He was enrolled at the Hull Grammar School in 1766, when he was seven, and he would visit his grandfather,...
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Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's 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
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