Thursday, January 24, 2008

Amazing Grace

Someone sent me a link to this video several months ago. I went to Youtube and looked it up and was surprised to see that it has been viewed over 2 million times on that site.
Benita and I recently watched the movie called "Amazing Grace". It is a movie about the life of William Wilberforce. He was one of the leading English abolitionists, heading the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade, which he saw through to the eventual passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807. Also in the film Wilberforce seeks advise from John Newton, the writer of the words to the song "Amazing Grace". I highly recommend the movie, but if you are like me you may have to listen to it closely. I had a hard time understanding the English accents.

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