William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… and the delineation of a philanthropic model of interaction with the other. Wilberforce was born into an affluent middle-class family of Hull merchants 1 and his own story is intertwined with a family saga. Anne Stott, in her biography of … published in 1797, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity : ‘The Christian relaxes in the temperate use of all the gifts … 2010), p. 46. 8 . A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (Dublin: Robert Dapper, 1797), p. 329. The recklessness of his …
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