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William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner
William Hague
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Description for William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner
Paperback. William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 b/w, 16 col plates (24pp), With index. BIC Classification: BGH; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 41. Weight in Grams: 466.
William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade. Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able to lead a powerful tide of opinion, as MP for Hull, against the slave trade, a process which was to take up to half a century to be fully realised. Indeed, he succeeded in rallying to his cause the support in the Commons Debates of some the finest orators ... Read more
William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade. Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able to lead a powerful tide of opinion, as MP for Hull, against the slave trade, a process which was to take up to half a century to be fully realised. Indeed, he succeeded in rallying to his cause the support in the Commons Debates of some the finest orators ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007228867
SKU
V9780007228867
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99-99
About William Hague
William Hague was born in Rotherham in 1961. While at Oxford, he was President of the Union and of the University Conservative Association.He has been MP for Richmond, Yorkshire since 1989. He joined the Cabinet in 1995 as Secretary of State for Wales, and was leader of the Conservative Party from June 1997 to June 2001. This is his second ... Read more
Reviews for William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner
'The author has produced a splendid read for which he deserves the utmost credit. He tells Wilberforce's story with such enthusiasm and narrative skill that, in this bicentennial year, his book seems assured of bestsellerdom. I put it down liking Hague as much as I was moved by his tale, one of the most remarkable in British political history.' Sunday ... Read more