William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… 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 student thanks to ‘An infinite fund of … a comfortable hope that marriage in your case, so far from dangerously entangling you more and more in the cares of this fashionable world, may, on the contrary, help to speed you in the race of glory and honour and immortality (…)’. 10 As a … and the centrality of sociability in promoting it. Many of Wilberforce’s biographers have highlighted the role of fashionable sociability in preparing him for his evangelical mission. When he experienced a moral crisis in 1785 and …
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