William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… of the abolitionists and the streak of sentimentalism in many of Wilberforce’s parliamentary speeches 12 raise the issue of a growing effeminacy of the religious man: was the Clapham man a forerunner of the ‘new man‘, who gradually … Thornton’s son – , William Wilberforce and Edward Eliot was determined to use sociability in order to address Britain’s issues perceived as ‘material, moral and spiritual’ (Tomkins 49). Wilberforce, when he famously told More ‘If you will be … relaxation and the pleasures of friendly intercourse. 19 . In Moral Capital, Christopher Brown examines the central issue of motivation (p. 335) and relates anti-slavery to moral prestige, refusing to see Christianity as the prime mover …
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