Click2Flicks - Amazing Grace:- The Story Behind The Movie - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <div align=center><p><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b><i>AMAZING GRACE</i>:</p> <p>THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="104%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="./"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch2.htm">2. AFRICA, BEFORE EUROPEAN SLAVERS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch3.htm">3. SLAVE-TRADE BEGINNINGS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch4.htm">4. THE TRIANGLE TRADE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch5.htm">5. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE MYTH</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch6.htm">6. MIDDLE PASSAGE REALITY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch7.htm">7. JOHN NEWTON, SLAVE TRADER</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch8.htm">8. OLAUDAH EQUIANO</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch9.htm">9. HUMANS: PROPERTY and AUCTIONS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=102% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch10.htm">10. WILLIAM WILBERFORCE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch11.htm">11. VOICE of a MOVEMENT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch12.htm">12. MASSIVE EXPLOITATION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch13.htm">13. THE FAMOUS SPEECH</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch14.htm">14. CONVINCING the PUBLIC</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch15.htm">15. FEBRUARY 23, 1807</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="amazing_grace_ch16.htm">16. MORE TRAGEDIES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="../amazing_grace_ch17.htm">17. <i>AMAZING GRACE</i></a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="../amazing_grace_ch18.htm">18. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><font size="3"><u><b><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></b></u></font></p></div> <div align="center"><font face="times new roman" size=3 color=000000><b><i>Having heard all of this<br> you may choose to look the other way<br> but you can never again say<br> that you did not know.</b></i><br><br> William Wilberforce<br> Speech to Parliament<br> May 12, 1789</font><br><br> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p align="justify"><font face="arial,helvetica" size=3 color="000000"><a target="_blank" href="images/WilliamWilberforce.jpg"><b>William Wilberforce</b></a> had the evidence. His friend, <a target="_blank" href="images/ThomasClarkston_portrait_by_a_e_chalon.jpg"><b>Thomas Clarkson</b></a>, had scoured the British countryside, looking for <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10633/10633-h/10633-h.htm" target="_blank"><b>proof</b></a>:</p><ul> <li>He had talked with sailors who crewed on the ships.</li><br><br> <li>He had interviewed witnesses who spoke of the crimes.</li><br><br> <li>He had held <a target="_blank" href="images/in_his_hands.png"><b>in his hands</b></a> the <a target="_blank" href="images/cruel.png"><b>cruel</b></a> <a target="_blank" href="images/restraints.png"><b>restraints</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li>He had heard from passengers who’d barely survived.</li></ul> <p align="justify">Wilberforce had the evidence, alright. But Britain’s slave trade was legal, so the crimes weren’t crimes and the wrongs weren’t punishable. As one hundred thousand Africans were wrenched from their homes every year - to become “owned” by foreigners - people in the slave-trading business could ignore their plight because Parliament allowed it.</p> <p>With extraordinary dedication, however, the Cambridge University essayist (Clarkson) and Parliament’s youngest member (Wilberforce) staked out a new path. Their journey, to illegalize Britain’s slave trade, would take twenty years.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="amazing_grace_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> <p align="left"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="1">To cite this story, using <a href="http://www.mla.org/style/style_faq/style_faq4" target="_blank"><b>MLA Guidelines</b></a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Bos, Carole D. "Amazing Grace: The Story Behind the Movie." AwesomeStories.com. Date of access <http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/amazing_grace/amazing_grace_ch1.htm>.<br> </blockquote> <p>IN OTHER WORDS: Author. Title of story. Name of web site. Date of access <URL>.</p><br> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>