William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… is intertwined with a family saga. Anne Stott, in her biography of his life, has underlined the interplay between moral sentiments – sympathy in particular – and kinship during his formative years. 2 A friendship ethos informed his … [accessed 17 April 2020]). 2 . See her reference 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: … attachment to Barbara and you, I account as one of the special blessings of Providence (…),’ ( Private Papers 171). The sentimental rhetoric of the abolitionists and the streak of sentimentalism in many of Wilberforce’s parliamentary …
Abolition | Activism | Benevolence | Charity | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Philanthropy | Religion | Slavery
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