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Apr 27, 2024 · This is the Sharp family. Start with the man in green holding a sheet of music for his sister. You will almost definitely know him. This is Granville Sharp. I’ve become exceedingly fond of Granville. ‘Eccentric and socially awkward’ according to historian Hester Grant, Granville used to sign his letters with the musical notation, G#.
May 7, 2024 · Other evidence from the upper South seemed to reinforce the idea that slavery was on its way to extinction. What could be a more conspicuous endorsement of the anti-slave cause than having the College of William and Mary in 1791 confer an honorary degree on Granville Sharp, the leading British abolitionist at the time?
May 14, 2024 · Just as importantly, slaves protested their condition by running away, and their actions influenced white abolitionists like Granville Sharp and led to the famous anti-slavery ruling in the Somerset case as well as Dunmore’s Proclamation during the American Revolution. Black uprisings, particularly the Haitian Revolution, showcased black ...
4 days ago · Sharp opposed the impressment of sailors and the system of duelling; encouraged the distribution of the Bible, and advocated parliamentary reform. But it was as an enemy to slavery, and the first practical opposer of its injustice and its cruelties, that Granville Sharp earned a foremost place in the great bede-roll of our English philanthropists.
May 10, 2024 · Clarkson, Granville Sharp, the ex-slaver John Newton, ex-slaves such as Ottobah Cuguano and Olaudah Equiano, and the politician William Wilberforce (criticized by Walvin for his ‘often indecisive leadership’ (p. 174)) accomplished a revolution in British public opinion about slavery: ‘Just when the slave trade seemed more attractive and ...
May 7, 2024 · Some of the highlights are the records of the New York Manumission Society and the African Free School, the diaries and correspondence of English abolitionists Granville Sharp and John Clarkson, the papers of the Boston anti-slavery activist Lysander Spooner, the records of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, the draft of Charles Sumner’s ...
May 3, 2024 · Granville Sharp. The Just Limitation of Slavery in the Laws of God: Compared with the Unbounded Claims of the African Traders and British American Slaveholders... London: B. White and E. and C. Dilly, 1776. Call Number: HT915 S4. James A. Sloan. The Great Question Answered: or, Is Slavery a Sin in Itself (Per Se?)
