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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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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Kimberly McIntosh on why children need to learn about slavery, migration and empire.
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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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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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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...
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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...
101 months ago

Supported and largely led by slaveholders, the American Revolution was also, paradoxically, a profound antislavery event.
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