William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… 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 history … model of religious sociability? The abolitionist sociability of Wilberforce and his companions was primarily based on benevolence, a quality praised by eighteenth-century moral sense philosophers: ‘his kind construction of doubtful … actions, his charitable language (…), his thorough forgetfulness of little affronts, were fruits of that general benevolence which continually appeared’ ( The Life , vol. V, 296). Yet it was innovative in its conviction that …
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