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The first biography of Zachary Macaulay - the ‘engineer’ of the anti-slavery movement in Britain. He was never an orator or organiser of meetings but through careful research and publication of the facts, providing the vital resources for the parliamentary and public campaign.
Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller which shaped much more than the literary culture of the times: it defined a nation's sense of self, charting the rise of the British Isles to its triumph as a homogenous nation, a safeguard of the freedom of belief and expression, and a central world power. In this book Catherine Hall explores the emotional, intellectual, and political roots of Thomas Macaulay's vision of England, tracing the influence of his father's career as a colonial governor and drawing illuminating comparisons between the two men.
This study is an attempt to look behind the scenes at the self-effacing man, Zachary Macaulay one far less known than Wilberforce or his famous son, Thomas Babington Macaulay and to correct the imbalance of the record. It is an endeavour to assess in some measure Zachary Macaulays enormous contribution to the abolition of both the slave trade and of slavery itself in the British Dominions. More than all, as Macaulay himself would have wished, we seek to give God the glory for raising up such a man at so critical a juncture of British national history.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... circuit of visitation round her happy residence, when her presence carried joy and consolation, and instruction, to the scenes of want and woe, and brutal ignorance, we feel a sort of kindred cord which binds us to her, together with the whole human race."--British Review, vol . xviii., pp. 102, 109. [January 1821.] My Dear Feiend, --I send some doggerel verses. I think they are below Hannah, but may be about equal to Margaret's attainments. I wrote, or rather spoke th...