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 trial laid bare the horror and inhumanity of the Atlantic slave trade and galvanized the nascent movement to abolish it.
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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 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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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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Britain marks 200 years on March 25 since it enacted a law banning the trans-Atlantic slave trade, although full abolition of slavery did not follow for...
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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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Supported and largely led by slaveholders, the American Revolution was also, paradoxically, a profound antislavery event.
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The trade in human beings, mostly African, which existed in the British Empire for several centuries, was ended by law. Its destruction is a corrective to...
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The American revolution occurred at a time when critics of Negro slavery were advancing proposals for its abolition. Granville Sharp, John Wesley,...
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