Author's letters 'massive bit of the jigsaw' in abolition campaign Researchers are transcribing and digitising hundreds of letters from abolitionist Hannah More.

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'Letters written by a prominent abolitionist are being digitised, filling in a "massive bit of the jigsaw" in the abolition campaign history, experts say.'

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#HistoryMatters #AmazingGraceMovie youtu.be/Q6Cv5P9H9qU #WilliamWilberforce was persuaded by friends #WilliamPitt, #ThomasClarkson, #HannahMore, and #OlaudahEquiano to take on the unpopular and dangerous issue of the abolition of the British 🇬🇧 slave trade in 1807. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."

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✒ #HannahMore, English poet, playwright, and philanthropist, #DOTD 7 September 1833. #Poetry #Theatre #Literature

Review | Jane Austen’s favorite writers finally get their due In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” rare-book dealer Rebecca Romney discovers overlooked women authors who inspired the famous novelist.

« Novel to novel, these women were sending messages to each other: the law will not protect you, so take steps to protect yourself. » www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

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HANNAH MORE 1799 SACRED DRAMAS Young Persons SENSIBILITY Poem BIBLE

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'..not only for the moral hedonism of their “merely nominal” Christianity, but their ghastly indifference to the horrors of slavery she thought sprung from it'
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