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Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq.
Contributor(s): Sharp, Granville (Author), Hoare, Prince (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1108075614     ISBN-13: 9781108075619
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $71.24  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Americas (north Central South West Indies)
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
Dewey: 941.07
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 8.27" W x 11.69" L (3.09 lbs) 594 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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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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