[bookshare-discuss] Re: Wilber Wilberforce
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:55:50 -0700 (PDT)
True. I was glad to learn that he lived long enough to see the bill abolishing
the English slave trade passed--although only by three days. smile
G.Cindy
--- On Fri, 6/20/08, A. J. Nolte <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: A. J. Nolte <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Wilber Wilberforce
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, June 20, 2008, 5:33 AM
> I think Wilberforce's oratory had an effect in time; he
> did get slavery
> banned in the empire after all. It just took a long time.
>
> A. J.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grandma Cindy"
> <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 5:04 AM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Wilber Wilberforce
>
>
> > Is the person who asked some time ago about orators
> whose persuasiveness
> > changed things in the world here? You had many
> suggestions from many
> > people. I'm wondering whose speeches you used and
> how you did on the
> > project.
> >
> > In googling to find such speeches, I came across
> Wilber Wilberforce, whose
> > speech for the abolition of slavery in the House of
> Commons in England is
> > a classic, but unfortunately it didn't have any
> effect. I mention this now
> > because we just watched a DVD of the 2007 movie title
> Amazing Grace, which
> > is about him and his fight for the end of slavery in
> the British Empire,
> > and also about the hymn Amazing Grace. It originally
> had a different name
> > and was written by the captain of a slave ship whose
> life changed after he
> > almost drowned and who was haunted by the horrors of
> the slave ship e
> > captained.
> >
> > G.Cindy
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