William Wilberforce : the life of the great anti-slave trade campaigner / William Hague
2007, 1st edition. London : HarperPress. Provenance: Bookplate of Liber E Bibliotheca Domestica. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #385601
ISBN: 9780007228850
Physical description; xviii, 582 pp., 24 pages of plates, illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, 20 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; One boy, two paths -- Ambition and election -- The devoted acolyte -- Agony and purpose -- Diligence and new causes -- The trade in flesh and blood -- Early optimism -- Eloquence without victory -- 'An overflowing mind' -- The independent -- Consuming passions -- Darkness before dawn -- Abolition -- High respect ; low politics -- The struggle renewed -- Under attack -- Trials of faith -- 'An increase of enjoyments' -- His feet on the rock. Subjects; Wilberforce, William 1759-1833. Abolitionists Great Britain. Politicians. Antislavery movements. Biography.
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