Last night Patti & I watched this movie on Netflix DVD. Fantastic movie! Amazing Grace is a 2007 American-British biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted, about the campaign against slave trade in the British Empire, led by William Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade legislation through the British parliament. The title is a reference to the hymn Amazing Grace. The film also recounts the experiences of John Newton as a crewman on a slave ship and subsequent religious conversion, which inspired his writing of the poem later used in the hymn. Newton is portrayed as a major influence on Wilberforce and the abolition movement.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 16:14:12 +0000
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