[bookshare-discuss] Re: Wilber Wilberforce

  • From: "A. J. Nolte" <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:33:48 -0400

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> 
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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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