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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...
- Reasons for the success of the abolitionist campaign in 1807
Granville Sharp was a deeply religious man and founding...
- Reasons for the success of the abolitionist campaign in 1807
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.
Granville Sharp (1735–1813) was one of the first British campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade. He was the author of several anti-slavery pamphlets, including A Representation of the injustice and dangerous tendency of admitting the least claim of private property in the persons of men, in England, etc. (London, 1769), the first ...
Granville Sharp was a deeply religious man and founding member of the Society. His main contribution to the abolition movement was his ability to use the law in the struggle against the slave...
Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp were leading abolitionists who fought to end slavery. In 1787, they established the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, whose purpose was to...
