William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… a stroke revealed the strengths of the Clapham Sect’s philanthropic system and its weaknesses, most remarkably here, a gendered division of labour 13 and a class-oriented venture. 9 . Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England … is not empowered by it, nor given any greater insight to the condition of slavery‘, The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel (Cambridge: CUP, 1996), p. 123. Wilberforce’s major achievement lies in …
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