William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… in her biography of his life, has underlined the interplay between moral sentiments – sympathy in particular – and kinship during his formative years. 2 A friendship ethos informed his relationship with some of the members of his … and vindicated his action regardless of the doubts expressed by such fellow abolitionists as Thomas Clarkson. 5 Never lacking company, he enjoyed the pleasures of fashionable sociability to the full. At Cambridge, he was an extremely popular … III, 435). In a self-castigating and ironical move – from a former clubman and faro player at White’s and Brooks’s (Tomkins 29) – he urged Pitt to implement a tax on public diversions. But this should be set against a subtler apprehension …
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