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The Amazing Grace Analysis
The Amazing Grace movie shows the hardships slaves had to endure slavery and one man’s fight to stop it. The textbook The American Pageant gives one glimpse into the horrible conditions that slaves had to endure. Both the textbook and the movie show how slavery changed the colonies forever. They both show the fight for slavery was long and hard, but worth it in the end. The movie Amazing Grace was a historical movie to help people understand more about a part of history and how it was back in the older days.
The movie Amazing Grace showed the big role William Wilberforce played in history. William was an English politician and later William decided to become Christian. William stayed with Henry Thornton for a little while to take a break from work. He had to take a break from work for health reasons. While he was
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In The American Pageant they discuss the sugar cane farms, plantations, slaves, and the slave trade. In the movie Amazing Grace, one guy said, “If he wouldn’t have brought the slave to London the slave would have worked his self to death on a sugar cane farm.” That relates to how in history class we talked about the sugar cane farms and how they took more work and effort than tobacco. “Also, the Caribbean and deep South sugar plantations in particular demanded notoriously man-killing, breaking labor” (American Pageant). A sugar cane plantation needs more slaves to work than a tobacco plantations. The movie relates to history because it talks about the slave codes, slave trades, and how they work. William tried really hard to get the slave trades banned. It took him a long time to get it banned, but he finally did. According to The American Pageant book, “Only in the nineteenth century, beginning with Britain in 1807, did nations in Europe and the Americans begin to outlaw the international slave trade.” Also, the people like William Pitt in the movie are important in

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