2.23.2007

William Wilberforce and Amazing Grace



What the new movie covers up about William Wilberforce


Excerpt: Thanks to Wilberforce, the movement's most visible champion, Britain ended slavery well before America, but the abolitionist cause in America, too, was driven by Christian churches more than is often acknowledged. Steven Spielberg's 1997 "Amistad," about the fate of blacks on a mutinous slave ship, also obscured the Christian zeal of the abolitionists


WIKI: William Wilberforce


WIKI: John Newton


WIKI: Amazing Grace



Amazing Grace: The Story of John Newton


Comment: I would like to see this movie! But there is a lot more to the story (Christian activism!) than the movie portrays!

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