Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq.
Composed from his Own Manuscripts, and Other Authentic Documents in the Possession of his Family and of the African Institution
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
- Real Author: Granville Sharp
- Editor: Prince Hoare
- Date Published: December 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108075619
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Self-educated in languages and the law, the author Granville Sharp (1735–1813) was a leading anti-slavery campaigner. Though many of his associates in the abolitionist movement were dissenters or freethinkers, he was an Anglican very much concerned with the fate of the church in America after the war of independence. His family consigned his archives to the painter, playwright and author Prince Hoare (1755–1834), who published this biography in 1820. Sharp is less well remembered than other British abolitionists such as Clarkson and Wilberforce, but it was his work which, in 1772, brought the landmark case of James Somerset before Lord Mansfield, who upheld Sharp's legal arguments: as a result, it was henceforth understood that any slave reaching the shores of England became free. Sharp's continuing work for abolition, and his many other charitable and scholarly activities, are detailed in this fascinating work, drawn directly from his own writings.
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- Date Published: December 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108075619
- length: 594 pages
- dimensions: 297 x 210 x 30 mm
- weight: 1.41kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. His education, and writings to the year 1776
2. Acquaintance with General Oglethorpe, etc.
3. Settlement of a colony at Sierra Leone
4. Mr Sharp's means of expenditure
5. Domestic character of Mr Sharp
6. Catalogue of the books written by him
Appendix.
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