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Charles Dickens and Slavery |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / WRITERS AND WRITING |
| Author: Michael Timko |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 2,114 Words, 12,644 Characters |
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Dickens was a passionate man. He was passionate about life, writing, and helping others. While this passion may have made him a not so very admirable human being at times, it did inspire his becoming one of the most popular authors in the world. It also (and this is not often recognized) made him a passionate advocate of aiding those who most needed help--the poor and homeless.
Through his novels, speeches, public readings, and journalism, Dickens was a passionate advocate for various groups: mechanics' institutes, adult education, soup kitchens, emigration schemes, model-dwellings associations, prison reform, Ragged Schools, and recreational societies. At one period in his life, he was on the boards of thirteen separate hospitals and sanatoriums.
His friends often expressed astonish...
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...he spiritual basis of his objections to the odious institution, he remarks: "Dickens does not choose to give them [comfort], and will not at any time between this and the day of judgment." He may have been inconsistent at times, as all humans are, but in the matter of slavery, Dickens never wavered, and for that we must honor him as a humanitarian who worked all his life for justice for all.
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