William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… ‘The voice of abolition‘, as he was nicknamed, was first and foremost a sociable voice: having converted to evangelical activism, he used his gifts in society as a ‘talisman’ to re-moralize his country and delineated a new model of sociability that was philanthropic and religious. People > Politics Mots-clés Abolition Activism Benevolence Charity Evangelicalism Friendship Philanthropy Religion Slavery William Wilberforce has gone down in … origin, namely the devotion to Christ. Wilberforce, from his ‘conversion’ until his death, engaged in a sort of systemic activism that entailed a complex relation with sociability and the delineation of a philanthropic model of interaction …
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