Manly Voices
Bernard Porter: Macaulay & Son, 22 November 2012
Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain
by Catherine Hall.
Yale, 389 pp., £35, October 2012,978 0 300 16023 9 Show More
by Catherine Hall.
Yale, 389 pp., £35, October 2012,
“... him with any praise. ‘Fathers have flinty hearts,’ Tom was to observe later. The particular brand of Christianity that motivated the anti-slavery efforts for which Zachary is best known was also personally oppressive, with its image of a judgmental God overlooking our every move. The only affection Tom ever got was from his mother and sisters. When his ... ”