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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...
Oct 5, 2019 · But Michelle Faubert, an expert in Romantic literature, has found in the British Library, of all places, a misfiled document written in 1783 by the British abolitionist, Granville Sharp, which was a lengthy missive to the British Admiralty protesting about the infamous murder of 132 African captives aboard the slave ship the Zong off the shores ...
- Trevor Burnard
- 2019
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 .
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 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
This book examines Granville Sharp’s involvement in British abolition, delineating the discovery of the only fair copy of Sharp's letter on the Zong massacre. Uncovered at the British Library in 2015, the letter is reproduced here, accompanied by analysis of its provenance and significance.
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The son of the archdeacon of Northumberland, and the grandson of John Sharp, the Archbishop of York, he decided against a career in the Church of England and instead served an apprenticeship in May 1750 to a Quaker linen draper in London.
