William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… endearments of love, in the exercise (…) of all the benevolent and generous affections (…)’. 8 7 . Stephen Tomkins, The Clapham Sect: How Wilberforce’s Circle Transformed Britain (Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2010), p. 46. 8 . A Practical View of … but rather to try and transform it from within. The undertaking became collective thanks to the development of the ‘Clapham Sect‘, – a group of friends and relatives dedicated to the abolition of slavery and more broadly to the moral … many of Wilberforce’s parliamentary speeches 12 raise the issue of a growing effeminacy of the religious man: was the Clapham man a forerunner of the ‘new man‘, who gradually sketched out an original model of religious sociability? The …
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