William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… ( The Life , vol. I, Journal, April 14, 1797, 31). 4 . On a tour of the continent with him he observed that ‘men and women crowded round (him) in shoals,’ The Life of William Wilberforce, by his sons Robert Isaac Wilberforce, MA, and … 1660-1800 (1999; New York: Routledge, 2014), p. 85-110. 13 . Hannah More used her pen more than the power of talk, but women were expected to make the most of conversation ‘rather than formal debating or the more direct speech of political … was the result of his abolitionist sociability but also of the sociability displayed by other networks – non-conformist, women’s networks – , the moral pressure put on foreign powers ( ODNB 11), the outburst of slave rebellions and the …
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