William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… The recklessness of his prime youth was permanently curbed when, in 1797, he married Barbara Ann Spooner he had met in Bath . Marriage and friendship immediately found themselves at loggerheads, and Wilberforce was forced to reinvent his …
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