William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… 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 attached to (her) and … to Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) in Wilberforce, Family and Friends (Oxford: OUP, 2012), p. 2. 3 . Letter dated November 30, 1816: Private Papers of William Wilberforce, by William Wilberforce, edited by Anna Maria … MA, (London: John Murray, 1838), vol. I, p. 81. 5 . The Life (2nd edition; London: John Murray, 1839), vol. II, p. 76, letter to Clarkson. In this entry, the second edition is used for vols. II, III, IV, V. See also William Wilberforce …
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