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Granville Sharp Esquire, engraved by Charles Turner 1806 © Sharp was a leading British abolitionist and instigator of the first settlement of freed African slaves in Sierra...
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.
Granville Sharp was an English scholar and philanthropist, noted as an advocate of the abolition of slavery. Granville was apprenticed to a London draper, but in 1758 he entered the government ordnance department.
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One of the 12 men who formed the Committee for Effecting the Abolition of the African Slave Trade in 1787 at 2 George Yard was Granville Sharp (from 1735 to 1813). Sharp was a civil servant who devoted much of his life to campaigning against slavery.
May 29, 2018 · Born in Durham, England, on November 21 (November 10, old style), 1735, Granville Sharp is best known as being the prime mover in the abolition of slavery in England; one might even say that he was the force behind the British abolitionist William Wilberforce.
Granville Sharp (1735-1813), who campaigned for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, was born at Durham, the ninth son of the Reverend Thomas Sharp (1693-1758) and his wife Judith (Wheler) (d.1757).
Sharp was instrumental in bringing the murders into the public eye and, while no-one was prosecuted, the incident mobilised public feeling against the slave trade. Later in the 1780s, Sharp became a supporter of the ultimately disastrous Sierra Leone resettlement project.
