William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… stain of dishonour’ ( An Appeal 108-109). His enactment of the Christian hero’s virtues did not estrange him from true politeness 20 but, on the contrary, made him embody a new type of sociable man, one whose sociability was philanthropic. …
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