William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… Barbara and you, I account as one of the special blessings of Providence (…),’ ( Private Papers 171). The sentimental rhetoric of the abolitionists and the streak of sentimentalism in many of Wilberforce’s parliamentary speeches 12 raise … became the first headquarters for Evangelical abolitionism’. 12 . See Brycchan Carey, ‘William Wilberforce’s Sentimental Rhetoric: Parliamentary Reportage and the Abolition Speech of 1789‘, The Age of Johnson, A Scholarly Annual, vol.14 … ‘Am I not a Man and a Brother?’ 18 . Markman Ellis discusses empowerment in his study of the ‘sentimentalist rhetoric’ as ‘a one-way street: the colonial viewer is distressed by the condition of the slave (…) but the slave is not …
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