The Clapham Sect: How Wilberforce's Circle Transformed Britain - Brossura

Tomkins, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 0745953069 ISBN 13: 9780745953069

Casa editrice: Lion Pub, 2010

Riassunto

The Clapham Sect was a group of evangelical Christians, prominent in England from about 1790 to 1830, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and promoted missionary work at home and abroad. The group centred on the church of John Venn, rector of Clapham in south London. Its members included William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton, James Stephen, Zachary Macaulay and others. Stephen Tomkins tells the fascinating story of the group as one of a web of family relations - father and son, aunt and nephew, husband and wife, daughter and father, cousins, etc. Within the story of the people are the stories of their famous campaigns against the slave trade, then slavery, the Sierra Leone colony, Indian mission, home mission, charity and politics. The book ends by assessing the long term influence of the Clapham Sect on Victorian Britain and the Empire.

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L'autore:

Stephen Tomkins has a PhD in Church History at London Bible College and author of the acclaimed William Wilberforce: A Biography and A Short History of Christianity. He writes regularly for the BBC and is a contributing editor to the Ship of Fools website.

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• Editore: Lion Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0745953069
• ISBN 13: 9780745953069
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272