I saw that movie last year. It was very good, I didn't realize that the man who wrote Amazing Grace became blind. Patti Throw all your worries on Him, for He cares for you. 1 Peter 5-7, Good News for Modern Man, Today's English Version ----- Original Message ----- From: Grandma Cindy 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 ***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/ http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html Jake's site for useful links: http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.