William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… middle-class family of Hull merchants 1 and his own story 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 … to (her) and (highly) interested in (her) welldoing and happiness.’ 3 1 . See John Wolfe, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, p. 1 (https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29386 [accessed 17 April 2020]). 2 . See her reference to Adam Smith’s … as a black gentleman (Royal Albert Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter: it might also be that of Ignatius Sancho) and his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) are part of the same undertaking, summarized …
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