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Granville Sharp
Britannica
Granville Sharp was an English scholar and philanthropist, noted as an advocate of the abolition of slavery. Granville was apprenticed to a...
4 weeks ago
Zong slave ship trial: insurance loss or mass murder? | May 22, 1783 | HISTORY
History.com
The trial laid bare the horror and inhumanity of the Atlantic slave trade and galvanized the nascent movement to abolish it.
53 months ago
Granville Sharp’s Canon and Its Kin: Semantics and Significance
The Gospel Coalition
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-...
56 months ago
How cross-Atlantic correspondence ties together a trio of 18th century abolitionists
Billy Penn at WHYY
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...
23 months ago
CHRONOLOGY-Who banned slavery when?
Reuters
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...
8 months ago
Book Review- Amazing Grace
The Gospel Coalition
Whenever you have landmark historical events you are tempted to zip past the guy who was intimately involved with the event in favor of the...
140 months ago
George Washington’s Journey to Emancipation
Mount Vernon
Washington himself became a slave owner at the age of 11, when he inherited “ten negro Slaves” upon the 1743 death of his father.
40 months ago
Review: "Rough Crossings"
Columbia University
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...
56 months ago
How Law Destroyed the Slave Trade
Bindmans
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...
1 month ago
The Revolution Within the American Revolution | Sean Wilentz
The New York Review of Books
Supported and largely led by slaveholders, the American Revolution was also, paradoxically, a profound antislavery event.
13 months ago