William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… in the successive campaigns for the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery in Britain. His long parliamentary speeches were crucial in the success of his fight, but it is primarily his personality and the moral virtues he came to … most of conversation ‘rather than formal debating or the more direct speech of political activism’ (Miles Ogborn, The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019), p. … the articulation of a ‘redeemed country’ with the ‘notion of a ‘British lion‘ ever ready to take up the cause of freedom’ in Civilising Subjects. Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 (2002. Cambridge: Polity …
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