Granville Sharp was an English scholar and philanthropist, noted as an advocate of the abolition of slavery. Granville was apprenticed to a...
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The triangular relationship among Granville Sharp, Anthony Benezet, and Benjamin Rush is a telling one...helping us map Philadelphia's emergence as a center of...
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Known for his famous rule proving Jesus's divinity in the Greek New Testament, Granville Sharp was more than a Bible scholar—he was a gospel...
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The book makes a vigorous argument for the validity of Granville Sharp's rule, and explores the way in which other TSKS constructions (ie, article-substantive-...
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The trial laid bare the horror and inhumanity of the Atlantic slave trade and galvanized the nascent movement to abolish it.
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In the summer of 1783, less than two years after the defeat of the British army at Yorktown, more than 3000 former slaves left New York City to make a new...
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233 years ago Granville Sharp argued that black lives matter. But for 233 years the true sentiments of Britain's leading abolitionist were...
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On 29 November 1781, the crew of the British slave ship Zong made a decision that was striking in its callous barbarity, even by the standards of the time.
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When the novelist first read Gretchen Gerzina's 1995 book Black England, she discovered the complex and unexpected lives of black people in England before the...
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Washington himself became a slave owner at the age of 11, when he inherited “ten negro Slaves” upon the 1743 death of his father.
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