Amazing grace

I am not much for movies but our library has movies on disk and I brought home 5 disk to try to get Janet interested in something besides soap operas. I brought the movie AMAZING GRACE , a story of a group of people who fought for years in the English parliament to stop the slave trade in British ships.


William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a deeply religious man whose political views were very conservative, but who devoted most of his parliamentary career to the abolition of the slave trade and slavery. He also campaigned for legislation to prohibit the worst forms of child labor, cruelty to animals and the removal of political disabilities on Roman Catholics.
He fought to abolish the slave trade which, after many years of defeats, he finally achieved in 1807. However, this did not abolish slavery.
Wilberforce worked the rest of his life to abolish slavery in the British Isles and slavery was out lawed 3 days before he died. One of the workers went to Haiti on a fact finding mission on slavery and returned telling this story. A negro slave and her young daughter were being whipped and was heard to say to her child, a king is coming to set your free from slavery and his name is WILBERFORCE!
This was a good movie and I had not known about this man in history.