William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… convinced of Pitt’s unflinching devotion to the cause of abolition and vindicated his action regardless of the doubts expressed by such fellow abolitionists as Thomas Clarkson. 5 Never lacking company, he enjoyed the pleasures of fashionable … Leslie Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006), p. 342: ‘Teston, not Clapham, became the first headquarters for Evangelical abolitionism’. 12 . See … (Miles Ogborn, The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019), p. 209. Wilberforce shared an endogamous conception of sociability with his friends: his type of …
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