William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… in the British Parliament. He came to embody the fight for the abolition of the slave trade and then of slavery itself and his long and famous speeches at Westminster have turned him into the moral conscience of the nation. His … determination, his religious conversion and his evolution away from a life of dissipation towards a life of virtue and selflessness have been amply studied: less so the role of his sociability in securing abolition. He also embraced other … try to turn the conversation, and practise the company regulations which I have made‘ ( The Life , vol. 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 …
Abolition | Activism | Benevolence | Charity | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Philanthropy | Religion | Slavery
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