William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… delineation of a philanthropic model of interaction with the other. Wilberforce was born into an affluent middle-class family of Hull merchants 1 and his own story is intertwined with a family saga. Anne Stott, in her biography of his life, has underlined the interplay between moral sentiments – sympathy … and kinship during his formative years. 2 A friendship ethos informed his relationship with some of the members of his family, as shown by a letter to his daughter Elizabeth, where he urged her to consider him as ‘a friend (…) warmly …
Abolition | Activism | Benevolence | Charity | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Philanthropy | Religion | Slavery
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