Summary of Eric Metaxas's Amazing Grace

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#1 Wilberforce was born into a wealthy merchant family in Hull, England. The city was the fourth-largest port in England, but it was the only one that did not participate in the slave trade.

#2 Wilberforce was a child who was extremely bright and extremely sickly. He was enrolled at the Hull Grammar School in 1766, when he was seven, and he would visit his grandfather, who had removed to the bucolic village of Ferribly, on the Humber, seven miles away.

#3 When Joseph and Isaac were teaching at the Hull School, their youngest brother, William, was sent away to live with his uncle and aunt in Wimbledon. He was eight years old, and his mother had just given birth to another daughter.

#4 Wilberforce’s new guardians were extremely wealthy. They had a magnificent home in London, in St. James’s. Wilberforce was now ten, and they enrolled him at the Putney School, which was not particularly distinguished.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822503397

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Wilberforce was born into a wealthy merchant family in Hull, England. The city was the fourth-largest port in England, but it was the only one that did not participate in the slave trade.

#2

Wilberforce was a child who was extremely bright and extremely sickly. He was enrolled at the Hull Grammar School in 1766, when he was seven, and he would visit his grandfather, who had removed to the bucolic village of Ferribly, on the Humber, seven miles away.

#3

When Joseph and Isaac were teaching at the Hull School, their youngest brother, William, was sent away to live with his uncle and aunt in Wimbledon. He was eight years old, and his mother had just given birth to another daughter.

#4

Wilberforce’s new guardians were extremely wealthy. They had a magnificent home in London, in St. James’s. Wilberforce was now ten, and they enrolled him at the Putney School, which was not particularly distinguished.

#5

Wilberforce’s aunt and uncle were friends with George Whitefield, one of the most important figures in the Great Awakening in eighteenth-century England. Whitefield preached a tepid sort of moralism that seemed to promote civility and the status quo, and people began to look less to the churches for answers.

#6

Whitefield was a preacher who shocked the religious establishment of his day by preaching in open fields. He gave hope and joy to the miserable poor who came to hear him, and his fame grew. He was hated by the Church of England, but admired by many Americans.

#7

The Great Awakening, which was a movement that encouraged people to think for themselves and resist the more orderly religion found in most Church of England congregations, was extremely threatening to the social order.

#8

Wilberforce’s mother and grandfather were aware of the situation, and tried to stop it. But