ABSTRACT
Wilberforce, who secured the abolition of the slave trade and did as much as any single man to bring about the total abolition of slavery, had another object equally near to his heart.20 The two purposes of his life, he said, were to emancipate the slaves and to secure the reformation of manners. When he spoke of the reformation of manners, he meant chiefly teaching men to avoid the use of such words as he considered coarse. In this he was amazingly successful.
