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William Wilberforce, a Biography/Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
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William Wilberforce, a Biography. By Stephen Tomkins. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2007, Pp. 238. $18.00.)
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery. By Eric Metaxas. (New York: HarperSanFranscisco, 2007, Pp. xix, 283. $21.95.)
These publications mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. The Briton Stephen Tomkins appears in London newspapers and an online humor magazine, and has published popular surveys of Christian history, John Wesley, and St. Paul. The American Eric Metaxas has written children's books, scripts for children's television programs, and opinion pieces in several prominent newspapers and ...
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