Granville Sharp
Granville Sharp (10 November 1735 – 6 July 1813) was a British scholar, devout Christian, philanthropist and one of the first campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. Born in Durham, he initially worked as a civil servant in the Board of Ordnance. His involvement in abolitionism began in 1767 when he defended a severely injured slave from Barbados in a legal case against his master. Increasingly devoted to the cause, he continually sought test cases against the legal justifications for slavery, and in 1769 he published the first tract in England that explicitly attacked the concept of slavery.Granville Sharp's efforts culminated in 1772 when he was instrumental in securing Lord Mansfield's ruling in ''Somerset v Stewart'', which held that slavery had no basis in English law. In 1787, Sharp and Thomas Clarkson founded the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. The continuing campaigns of Sharp, Clarkson and William Wilberforce led to the abolition of slave trade through the Slave Trade Act 1807. Sharp died in 1813, two decades before the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire.
In addition to his abolitionist cause, Sharp also championed the creation of a free colony in Sierra Leone, which encouraged black people in Britain to settle in west Africa. His efforts led to the founding of the Province of Freedom and later Freetown. He was also an advocate for the American colonists, parliamentary reform and the legislative independence of Ireland. An accomplished classicist and biblical scholar, Sharp was also one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Provided by Wikipedia
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Baltimore, 1854
Baltimore, 1854
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London, 1772
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London, Printed for B. White and E. & C. Dilly, 1776
London, Printed for B. White and E. & C. Dilly, 1776
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London, 1769
London, 1769
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London, 1776
London, 1776
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London : Printed for B. White, and E. and C. Dilly, 1776
London : Printed for B. White, and E. and C. Dilly, 1776
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London, 1776
London, 1776
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[Great Britain] : [publisher not identified], 1794
[Great Britain] : [publisher not identified], 1794
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London : printed by W. Richardson, for B. White; and E. and C. Dilly, 1776
London : printed by W. Richardson, for B. White; and E. and C. Dilly, 1776
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by Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813
London : printed by G. Bigg, 1771
London : printed by G. Bigg, 1771
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London : printed in the year, 1779
London : printed in the year, 1779
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London : Printed for Benjamin White, (No. 63) in Fleet-Street, and Robert Horsfield, (No. 22.) in Ludgate-street, 1769
London : Printed for Benjamin White, (No. 63) in Fleet-Street, and Robert Horsfield, (No. 22.) in Ludgate-street, 1769
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London : First printed in 1781. Third edition, 1782. For Mr. Dilly, Poultry; Mr. White, Fleet-street; Mr. Payne, Pall-Mall; and Mr. Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1782
London : First printed in 1781. Third edition, 1782. For Mr. Dilly, Poultry; Mr. White, Fleet-street; Mr. Payne, Pall-Mall; and Mr. Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1782
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London : printed for B. White, 1774
London : printed for B. White, 1774
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London : printed in the year, 1781
London : printed in the year, 1781
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London : Printed by H. Baldwin, Fleet-Street, 1788
The third edition.
London : Printed by H. Baldwin, Fleet-Street, 1788
The third edition.
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