William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel (Cambridge: CUP, 1996), p. 123. Wilberforce’s major achievement lies in changing the self-image of his nation: his awakening to what he perceived as the unchristian nature of slavery …
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